Rijeka (hrv)

Rijeka

Rijeka ranks 307th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Halle (Saale), Zaragoza, and Trondheim. Memorable people born in Rijeka include Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, and Josip Bozanić. Memorable people who died in Rijeka include Luciano Sušanj, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Daša Drndić. Rijeka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many athletes, and military personnels. Rijeka is located in Croatia.

Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 107,964 inhabitants. Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially between the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, Italy and Yugoslavia, changing rulers and demographics many times over centuries. According to the 2021 census data, 85% of its citizens are Croats, along with small numbers of Serbs, Bosniaks and Italians. Read more on Wikipedia