Tinj – A Portrait through time of a Croatian Hamlet

Translated by Josip Colić
With a foreword by Dr Sven Erlić

Some twenty-five kilometres inland from the ancient coastal city of Zadar in Croatia is a small settlement, too small to be a village, called Tinj. As you drive along the country road towards this rural community, you have to keep a look-out for the single road-sign that shows where the turn-off is.

And as you ponder about the modernisation that this tiny community recently went through, it is easy to develop an impression that, in the great scheme of things, this is a pretty insignificant place, that nothing much could ever have happened here, but that impression is misleading. Throughout its quaint and humble existence, Tinj has had its share of both turbulence and substance.

 

In search of the real story of Tinj, Krešo Erlić has collected archaeological data and extant historical documents in order to puzzle together a chronological historical analysis. In his essay Župa Tinj Kroz Vjekove he takes us on a journey from the Neolithic era and into the pages of history with the Liburnians, the Romans and the old Kings of Croatia and into modern times

 

 

 

You can download the pdf version of the book here: Tinj A Portrait through time of a Croatian Hamlet