Badija

Badija
	Monastery on Badija
Geography
Location	Adriatic Sea
Coordinates	42.9556°N 17.1611°E
Archipelago	Škoji
Area	0.97 km2 (0.37 sq mi)[1]
Administration
	Croatia
County	Dubrovnik-Neretva
Demographics
Population	0 (2011)

Badija is the largest island in archipelago Škoji, near Korčula island in Croatia.

The island is currently unpopulated. Franciscans from Bosnia came into possession of the island in 1398. They held it until 1949, when it was expropriated by the communist authorities.

References

Duplančić Leder, Tea; Ujević, Tin; Čala, Mendi (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1 : 25 000" (PDF). Geoadria. Zadar. 9 (1): 5–32. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 2019-12-26.

Sources

Samostan Uznesenja B. D. Marije (in Croatian)

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[Duplancic-Cala-Ujevic-1] Duplančić Leder, Tea; Ujević, Tin; Čala, Mendi (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1 : 25 000" (PDF). Geoadria. Zadar. 9 (1): 5–32. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 2019-12-26.