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Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatian: Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera, colloquially Plitvice, pronounced [plîtʋitse]) is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia. [2] In 1979, Plitvice Lakes National Park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, for its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, and ...
Plitvička Jezera (pronounced [plîtv̞itʃkaː jɛzɛ̌ra] or just Plitvice [plîtv̞itsɛ]; Plitvice Lakes, in English) is a municipality (općina) in central Croatia, in the eastern part of the Lika-Senj county, that lies in and near the eponymous Plitvice Lakes National Park, bisected by the D1 main road (Zagreb–Split).
On 2 May, the Serb Democratic Party, the ruling party in the SAO Krajina, organised a protest march to the Plitvice Lakes and a political rally demanding the Croatian police withdraw from Plitvice. The march, led by Babić and Vojislav Šešelj, was prevented from reaching the Plitvice Lakes by the JNA and forced to return to Titova Korenica. [31]
During the night from 6 to 7 March 1914 a huge slide of the travertine barrier occurred due to the undercutting by the Korana River. This changed the flows of the waterfalls Hrvoje and Vilina kosa. In 1962, Rastoke has been put under protection by the Croatian Institute for Conservation. In 1969, it was put under national monument protection ...
In the United States, Africa was broadcast as a seven-part series on the Discovery Channel starting from 8 January 2013. While the first five episodes are redubbed in the American version as Forest Whitaker gives narration, the sixth ("Africa: The Future") is left untouched as David Attenborough presents the episode on-screen.
On 29 March 1991, the Plitvice Lakes management was expelled by rebel Krajina Serb police [2] under the control of Milan Martić, [3] supported by paramilitary volunteers from Serbia proper under the command of Vojislav Šešelj. [4] On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, Croatian police officers entered the national park to expel the Serb rebels.
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Plitvice or Plitvička jezera can refer to: Plitvice Lakes National Park , the largest and oldest national park in Croatia Plitvička Jezera , a municipality of Lika-Senj County, Croatia