Rijeka (hrv)

Rijeka

Rijeka ranks 307th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Halle (Saale), Zaragoza, and Trondheim. Memorable people born in Rijeka include Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, and Slavenka Drakulić. Memorable people who died in Rijeka include Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Petar Radaković, and Daša Drndić. Rijeka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many military personnels, and soccer players. Rijeka is located in Croatia.

Rijeka, also known as Fiume, is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 108,623 inhabitants. Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially between the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and Croatia, changing rulers and demographics many times over centuries. According to the 2011 census data, the majority of its citizens are Croats, along with small numbers of Serbs, Bosniaks and Italians. Read more on Wikipedia