Fažana
Sign in to saveFažana (Croatian; ) or Fasana (Italian; ) is a village and a municipality on the southwestern coast of Istria in Croatia. It is a fishing village.
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Vinony's link graph records 91 inbound references to Fažana, and connects out to Croatia, Augustus and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in HR, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Fažana, Municipalities of Croatia and Populated coastal places in Croatia.
Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Fažana
- Settlement.official_name
- Općina FažanaComune di FasanaFažana Municipality
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_flag
- Zastava Fažane.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- CoA Fazana-Croatia.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 90px
- Settlement.image_map
- Fasana cartina.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Fažana municipality in Istria
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Croatia
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Croatia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Istria County
- Settlement.leader_party
- SDP
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ada Damjanac
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 13.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Croatia
- Official name
- Fažana
- Demonym
- fasanesi
- Country
- Croatia
- Located in
- Istria County
- Population
- 3463
- Area
- 9.9
- Elevation
- 3
- Shares border with
- Vodnjan
- Official website
- www.fazana.hr
- Image
- Fažana 2025.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fažana
- native label
- Fažana
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01254/entity/fazana
- contains settlement
- Valbandon
- postal code
- 52212
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Roman times
- Middle Ages
- Geography
- Demographics
- Languages
- Notable people
- Notes
- References
Fažana (Croatian; ) or Fasana (Italian; ) is a village and a municipality on the southwestern coast of Istria in Croatia. It is a fishing village.
==Name== Fažana, which in Roman times carried the name of and then , derives its name from the presence in Roman times of ceramic and terracotta manufactures such as vases, tiles and amphorae. Its name and meaning thereof is also reflected in the coat of arms of the town, an amphora.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fažana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations