Begovac

Begovac (known as Begovac Plaščanski until 1991) is a village in the Lika region of Croatia, in the municipality of Saborsko, Karlovac County.

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Settlement.official_name: Begovac
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.pushpin_map: Croatia
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Begovac in Croatia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Continental Croatia
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Karlovac County
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Saborsko
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 15.8
Settlement.elevation_m: 537
Settlement.population_as_of: 2021
Settlement.population_total: 34
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Population: 34
Area: 15.8
Elevation: 537

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postal code: 47306

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Begovac (known as Begovac Plaščanski until 1991) is a village in the Lika region of Croatia, in the municipality of Saborsko, Karlovac County.

==History== On 10 April 1941, while the Royal Yugoslav Army was withdrawing south by a passenger train, while stopped at Blato the Regia Aeronautica bombed the train, resulting in many dead and wounded. The villagers helped transport the wounded to the hospital in Ogulin: major Tihomir Oklobdžija, farmer Pavao Kostelac and the conductor Matija Pintar.