Sinj

Sinj is a metropolis within the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The town itself has a population of eleven,478 and the populace of the executive municipality, which incorporates surrounding villages, is 24,826. Sinj turned into seized by way of the Turks in 1524 who maintained manage till 1686, when it became taken into possession by way of the Venetians. The town grew around an historical fortress held by way of the Ottomans from sixteenth until the stop of seventeenth century, and the Franciscan monastery with the church of Our Lady of Sinj, an area of pilgrimage.

The last Turkish siege in 1715, for the duration of the Second Morean War, changed into repulsed. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 till 1918, the city was part of the Austrian monarchy Austria side after the compromise of 1867 head of the district of the equal call, one of the 13 Bezirkshauptmannschaften within the Kingdom of Dalmatia. The Italian call alone turned into used before 1867.