Oplećani

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Oplećani or Oplećane is a village in the Municipality of Tomislavgrad in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Name

Originally, the village was called Oplećane.

History

Franciscan Petar Bakula wrote two schematisms, one for the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in 1867, and the other for the Apostolic Vicariate of Herzegovina in 1873. According to these two schematisms, in 1867, Oplećani had 25 Catholics, and in 1873, their number rose to 46. Northeast of the village there's an Illyrian fortress, while in the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox cemeteries there are 24 stećci, medieval tombstones.

Population

Footnotes

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