Lika

{{Infobox settlement | name = Lika | native_name = | native_name_lang = | settlement_type = Historical region | image_map = Lika i Ličko primorje.jpg | map_caption = | coordinates = | subdivision_type = Counties | subdivision_name = (79%) (14%) (7%) | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = Largest city | seat = Gospić | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_magnitude = Lika then became a part of the Kingdom of Croatia in 925, when Duke Tomislav of the Croats received the crown and became King of Croatia.

The name of Lika is derived from old Illyrian language, meaning "body of water"; its cognates are liquor ("fluid") in Latin and liqén ("lake") in modern Albanian. Indeed, a major feature of the Lika landscape are rivers and lakes, as well as marshes and floodplains, many of which have been drained in 18th to 20th centuries. The name initially referred to Lika River, and over time came to denote the region. The first mention of Lika as a toponym appears in 10th-century Constantine Porphyrogenitus' book De Administrando Imperio as , in a chapter dedicated to Croats and the organisation of their state, describing how their ban "has under his rule Krbava, Lika and Gacka".