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Ličko Petrovo Selo is a village in Lika, Croatia. It is located near the Plitvice Lakes. It is connected by the D1 highway. East of the village, the D217 ends at the Ličko Petrovo Selo border crossing with Bosnia and Herzegovina (continuing to Izačić and on to Bihać).

Ličko Petrovo Selo
Village
Ličko Petrovo Selo
Coordinates: 44.880242°N 15.711789°E / 44.880242; 15.711789
Country	Croatia
Region	Lika
County	Lika-Senj
Municipality	Plitvička Jezera
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	110
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	53233

Founded in 1792, the village was historically a majority Serb community and has an Orthodox church. It was largely destroyed in World War II and was rebuilt in the 1970s.[2] During World War II, as part of their genocide targeting ethnic Serbs, the Croatian fascist Ustaše regime killed about 890 Serbs from Ličko Petrovo Selo as well as the nearby village of Melinovac between June and August 1941. The victims were thrown into a pit.[3]

Factories and Željava Air Base were nearby, as well as the Plitvice Lakes national park, which opened in 1949.[2] During the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Ličko Petrovo Selo was within the breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina and again was extensively destroyed. Most residents fled, and in the 2020s the village has a population of a few hundred, mostly elderly, with some houses being second homes and many yet to be repaired. There is a post office and a 58-room hotel, opened in 2019 on the site of the school.[2]

Notable people

• Josef Philipp Vukassovich

References

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