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Goli otok in Adriatic sea

Goli otok (literal translation: "barren island", Italian: Isola Calva) is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Republic of Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Goli_mapa. ... Image File history File links Goli_mapa. ... A satellite image of the Adriatic Sea. ... Rab (Croatia) Coat of arms The historic town center of Rab For other uses, see Rab (disambiguation). ... Primorje-Gorski Kotar county - Primorsko-goranska županija is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kvarner and the surrounding Northern Croatian seacoast, and the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar. ...

The island is barren and uninhabited. Its northern shore is almost completely bare, while the southern one has small amounts of vegetation as well as a number of coves. Lulworth Cove, Dorset England This article is about the coastal feature. ...

The Prison Camp

Humans first took notice of the island during modern times. Throughout World War I, Austria-Hungary sent Russian prisoners of war from Eastern Front to Goli Otok. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ...

In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security top secret prison and labor camp run by the authorities of Communist Yugoslavia. Until 1956, all throughout the Informbiro period, it was used to incarcerate political prisoners. They included known Stalinists, but also other Communist Party members or even regular citizens accused of exhibiting any sort of sympathy or leanings towards the Soviet Union. Non-political prisoners were also sent to the island. Some were sent to serve out simple jail times.^[1] Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in penal labor. ... Motto Brotherhood and Unity Anthem Hey, Slavs Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croatian (spoken throughout the territory), Slovenian, Macedonian, Albanian, Hungarian (all official), and languages of other nationalities. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Tito-Stalin Split be merged into this article or section. ... A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Cyrillic script SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Latin script SKJ flag in Albanian SKJ flag in Hungarian SKJ flag in Italian SKJ flag in Macedonian SKJ flag in Slovenian The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (after 1952 the League of Communists of Yugoslavia) was...

Goli otok's Jail

The prison inmates were forced to do heavy labor in a stone quarry, regardless of the weather conditions: in the summer it was 35-40 °C, while in the winter they were subjected to chilling bora wind. Inmates were also regularly beaten and humiliated. Image File history File linksMetadata Goli_otok_zatvor. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Goli_otok_zatvor. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... Bora, also known as Bura (in Croatian) or Burja (in Slovenian) is a northern to north-eastern katabatic wind in the Adriatic, Greece and Turkey. ...

After Tito's regime normalized its relations with the Soviets, Goli Otok prison was passed down into provincial jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (as opposed to the Yugoslav federal authorities). Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) was the ruler of Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980. ... Meeting after the liberation of Zagreb, May 1945. ...

The prison was shut down in 1988, and completely abandoned in 1989. Since then it has been left to ruin. Today it is frequented by the occasional tourist on the boat trip and populated by sheep-herders from Rab. Former Croatian prisoners are organized into the Association of former political prisoners of Goli Otok.^[2] In Serbia, they are organized into the Society of Goli Otok.^[3] Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Rab (Croatia) Coat of arms The historic town center of Rab For other uses, see Rab (disambiguation). ...

Famous prisoners

• Šaban Bajramović - Serbian Roma musician
• Panko Brashnarov - Bulgarian/ethnic Macedonian poltician (disputed)
• Vlado Dapčević - Montenegrin politician
• Vlado Dijak - Bosnian writer
• Venko Markovski - Bulgarian politician
• Dragoljub Mićunović - Serbian politician
• Dobroslav Paraga - Croatian politician
• Pavao Vuk-Pavlović - Croatian philosopher
• Nikola Kljusev - Macedonian politician and first prime-minister of independent Macedonia

Šaban Bajramović (Cyrillic: Шабан Бајрамовић) (born April 16, 1936 in Niš, Serbia) is Serbian Roma musician. ... Panko Brashnarov (1883, Veles, present day Republic of Macedonia - 1951, Goli Otok), present day Croatia, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (IMARO). ... This article is about the Slavic ethnic group; for the unrelated people of ancient and modern Greece, see Ancient Macedonians and Macedonians (Greek) respectively. ... Vlado Dapčević Vladimir Vlado Dapčević was a Yugoslav communist and founder of The Party of Work (Partija Rada), born 1917 in the village Ljubotinj in Montenegro, he attended Secondary school in Cetinje, where he was expelled because of organizing a student strike. ... Vlado Dijak (born 1925 in Brezovo Polje (near Brčko), Bosnia and Herzegovina - died 1988 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was known as most unfamous writer in Yugoslavian classic literature. ... Venko Markovski (Bulagrian and Macedonian cyrillic: Венко Марковски) (March 3, 1915 - January 7, 1988) was a Bulgarian writer, poet, and politician from Macedonia. ... Dragoljub Mićunović is one of the founding members of the Democratic Party in Serbia. ... Dobroslav Paraga (born December 9, 1960) is a Croatian politician. ... Nikola Kljusev (Macedonian: , b. ...

Goli Otok in literature

The first book, published in 1984 in the USA, describing the horrors in the prison, was Goli Otok-The Island of Death, written by the Bulgarian poet Venko Markovski. Ligio Zanini (1927-1993), a poet born in Rovinj, wrote Martin Muma (1990), an autobiographical book about his imprisonment on the island. Other significant literary reference to Goli Otok include Night till Morning, by the Slovenian writer Branko Hofman, and Brioni, by the Slovenian writer Drago Jančar. The first Yugoslav novel which raised the purges against Stalinists in 1950s Yugoslavia was 'Kad su cvetale tikve' (When Pumpkins Blosson) by Dragoslav Mihailović. It is set in Belgrade and tells the demise of a boxer, Ljuban, who eventually flees Serbia for a new life in Sweden. His brother and father both vanish at the hands of the UDBA and his brother spends time on Goli Otok. Venko Markovski (Bulagrian and Macedonian cyrillic: Венко Марковски) (March 3, 1915 - January 7, 1988) was a Bulgarian writer, poet, and politician from Macedonia. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Rovinj, seen from Campanile of Sv. ... This article is about the year. ... Drago Jančar (born 13 April 1948, Maribor) is a Slovenian novelist and dramatist. ... UDBA or Uprava državne bezbednosti/sigurnosti/varnosti (Serbian Cyrillic: УДБА or Управа државне безбедности) (State Security Administration, literally state security directorate) was the secret police organization of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...

References

External links

• www.goli-otok.com
• Comparative criminology | Europe - Yugoslavia
• Goli Otok - Hell in the Adriatic is the true story of Josip Zoretic's tragic experience and survival as a political prisoner of the former Yugoslavia's most notorious prison, Goli Otok, and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment.[1]
• Goli today - photoalbum [2]

Coordinates: 44°51′N, 14°49′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...