This part of the Military Frontier included the geographic regions of Lika, Kordun, Banovina ( named after " Banska krajina "), and bordered the Adriatic Sea to the west, Venetian Republic to the south, Habsburg Croatia to the west, and the Ottoman Empire to the east.

This part of the Military Frontier included the geographic regions of Lika, Kordun, Banovina and bordered the Adriatic Sea to the west, Venetian Republic to the south, Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia to the north-west, the Ottoman Empire to the south-east, Habsburg Kingdom of Slavonia to the east, and Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary to the north.

Sometimes called " Mih ", " mjeh ", " mjesina " or only " diple ", it is played from Istria, Lika, over Dalmatia Islands and Coast to Herzegovina.

They presumably originate from western Herzegovina, from where they migrated to Dalmatia, and from there to Lika and Bačka in the 16th and 17th century.

According to another theory, they migrated to Bačka from Dalmatia ( Zadar hinterland, Ravni Kotari, Cetinska krajina ), Lika, Podgorje ( littoral Bunjevci: Senj, Jablanac, Krivi Put, Krasno ...) and western Herzegovina ( area around river Buna, Čitluk, Međugorje ) in several groups led by Franciscan monks, to serve as mercenaries against Ottoman army in 1682, 1686, and 1687.

The most common and traditional version is single-stringed ( in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Zagora in Croatia ), while a much less version is the two-stringed ( in Bosanska Krajina and in Lika ).

The Gusle has been used by the Croats in Herzegovina, the South Croatian hinterland, Lika, as well as in Bosnia and Western Bosnia as an accompaniment for epic poetry for hundreds of years.

By far the most numerous, mobile and expansionist migrations were those of Ijekavian Štokavian speakers of eastern Herzegovina, who have flooded most of Western Serbia, many areas of eastern and western Bosnia, large swathes of Croatia ( Banovina, Kordun, Lika, parts of Gorski kotar, continental parts of northern Dalmatia, some places north of Kupa, parts of Slavonia, southeastern Baranya etc .).

The majority of its speakers are Croats who live in Lika, Kvarner, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bunjevci and Croats of north Bačka around Subotica.

The cap is originally in the shape of a flat cylinder, having a red upper surface ( called tepelak ) not dissimilar to the Herzegovina and Lika caps.

It is sang mostly in the regions of Dalmatia and Herzegovina, but it is also common in Lika and Karlovac.

Such singing meet from Karlovac, to Lika, Dalmatia, Herzegovina until Konavle.

Prominent karst poljes are Livanjsko polje ( about 60km long and 7km wide ) and Glamočko Polje in Bosnia, Popovo Polje in Herzegovina, Logatec, Planina, and Cerknica Polje in Slovenia, Nikšićko Polje in Montenegro, Ličko Polje in Lika, Croatia.

The county itself extends towards the north to the water springs of Jamnica, and towards the south all the way down to the mountainous regions of Gorski kotar and Lika, in particular to the Bjelolasica mountain which features the largest winter sport recreation center in the country.

Major towns include Gospić, Otočac, and Gračac, most of which are located in the karst poljes of the rivers of Lika, Gacka and others.

The closest they got to winning the league was in the 2007-08 edition when the team, under coach Hasan Lika, couldn ’ t get a win in the last match of the season against rivals Dinamo Tirana, which would have brought home the title.

Artuković led a small uprising in Lika called the Velebit uprising, after which he returned to Italy.

Croatian cuisine can be divided into a few regional cuisines ( Istria, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Lika, Gorski Kotar, Zagorje, Međimurje, Podravina, Slavonija ) which all have their specific cooking traditions, characteristic for the area and not necessarily well known in other parts of Croatia.

After the Second World War ( in 1945 and 1946 ), Futog was settled by Serb families which mostly originated from Bosnia, Lika, and Srem.

As Franjo Tuđman was planning to secede Croatia from Yugoslavia, Serb leaders in anticipation created an autonomous region around the city of Knin called SAO Kninska Krajina, which in October 1990 they transformed into SAO Krajina after the SAO was joined by the Community ( Association ) of Municipalities of Northern Dalmatia and Lika.

Mile Budak was born in Sveti Rok, in Lika, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In the coastal regions of Croatia ; Istria, Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral, as well as in Lika a form of Ham known as " Pršut " is made.

After traversing the Velebit mountain range travelers reach the Croatian karst plains of Lika.

Croatian Party of Rights announced that during the Croatian parliamentary election in 2011 holders of their list in VII Electoral District ( primary Lika and Gorski Kotar ) will be exclusively women.

Operation Maslenica was a Croatian Army offensive launched in January 1993 to retake territory in northern Dalmatia and Lika from Krajina Serb forces, with the stated military objective of pushing the Serbs back from approaches to Zadar and Maslenica Bay, allowing a secure land route between Dalmatia and northern Croatia to be opened.

The interior regions Gorski kotar, Velebit and Lika have vast stretches of virginal nature, with mountain peaks, forests and fields, many animal species including bears, and the national parks of Risnjak and Plitvice Lakes.

* Lika is Chiaki's best ( and only ) friend who moves in with her.

* The Promise ( Lika ), Henry Miller's Theatre, New York, 14 November – 2 December 1967 ( with Ian McKellen and Ian McShane ; on opening night the audience was picketed by local Equity members chanting that only American actors should be allowed on Broadway.

In the immediate vicinity of Drvar was the Partisan I Proletarian Corps consisting of the elite 1st Proletarian Division and 6th ' Lika ' Proletarian Division ( Nikola Tesla ), with the Corps headquarters located in the village of Mokronoge, six kilometres east of Drvar.

During the night the 3rd ' Lika ' Proletarian Brigade attacked the cemetery, with elements of the 9th Dalmatian Division reinforcing the assault.

The Ottoman Empire further expanded in the 16th century to include most of Slavonia, western Bosnia and Lika.

The party's newspaper Proleter ( December 1932 ) stated: " salute the Ustaša movement of the peasants of Lika and Dalmatia and fully support them.

In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres and Lošinj ; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were also findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Međimurje and Slovenia.

The alder came from the western-most part of today's Slovenia ( resulting in the barren land of the Kras region ), in two regions of Croatia, Lika and Gorski kotar ( resulting in the barren slopes of Velebit ) and south of Montenegro.

Elsewhere, and especially in the main Iapydic area of the Lika highlands in Croatia, definite Celtic artifacts are scarce and explicable merely by commercial exchanges.

Goulash () is also very popular in most parts of Croatia, especially north ( Hrvatsko Zagorje ) and Lika.

In Gorski Kotar and Lika deer and boar frequently replace beef-Lovački gulaš.

In addition, they oversaw important cattle and trade routes leading to Velebit and further to Lika via Paklenica or Rujan.

Lika () is a geographic region in Mountainous Croatia macroregion of Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast.

On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by the Malovan pass.

Today most of the territory of Lika ( Gospić, Otočac, Brinje, Donji Lapac, Lovinac, Perušić, Plitvička Jezera, Udbina and Vrhovine ) is part of Lika-Senj County.

The Plitvice Lakes National Park is also in Lika.

Byelohravati ( or White Croats ) originally migrated from White Croatia to Lika in the first half of the 7th century.

After the settlement of Croats ( according to migrations theories ), Lika became part of the Principality of Littoral Croatia.

Among the twelve noble Croat tribes that had a right to choose the Croat king, the Gusići tribe was from Lika.