Large galleys could not anchor in the bay of Senj, which is shallow and exposed to sudden gales.

One of the most famous is the Senj Summer Carnival – the first was 1968. and the tradition stayed.

Cultural centre of littoral Bunjevci is the city of Senj.

By road from the coastal town of Senj the distance is about.

Lika-Senj county () is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island.

Senj () is the oldest town on the upper Adriatic, and it was founded in the time before the Romans some 3000 years ago ( Senia ) on the hill Kuk.

Senj is now found in the Lika-Senj County, and is also included in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gospić-Senj, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rijeka within the Catholic Church.

The Fortress Nehaj was built by Ivan Lenković in 1558, and is the most famous monument and symbol of Senj

Modern Senj is a seaside tourist town.

File: Nehaj Senj Croatia 01. jpg | The fortress Nehaj on the hill Nehaj is the most famous monument and symbol of Senj

A portion of the Kvarner Bay, located between Cres, Krk, Rab and Pag is also called Kvarnerić ( literally " little Kvarner ") or or, and the portion east of Krk and Rab is called Senj Channel.

* D8, connects Rijeka and Dubrovnik, widely known as Jadranska magistrala and part of E65-runs along the coastline and connects many cities on the coast, including Crikvenica, Senj, Zadar, Šibenik, Trogir, Split, Omiš, Makarska and Ploče.

Formally given to bishop Philip of Senj, the permission to use the Glagolitic liturgy ( the Roman Rite conducted in Slavic language instead of Latin, not the Byzantine rite ), actually extended to all Croatian lands, mostly along the Adriatic coast.

The 18th century brought some prosperity, especially with the construction of the Josephina ( named after Emperor Joseph II ) linking the Adriatic coast via Senj to Karlovac.

On March 12, 1537, the city and the fortress was released to the Turk hands, many of the citizens left the town while the Uskoci went to the city of Senj on the Croatian coast, where they continued fighting the Turkish invaders.

He listed the cities along the coast from north to the south: Alvona ( Labin ), Flanona ( Plomin ), Tarsatica ( Trsat ; in Rijeka ), Senia ( Senj ), Lopsica ( Sv.

Juraj, south from Senj ), Ortoplinia ( probably Stinica, in Velebit ), Vegium ( Karlobag ), Argyruntum ( Starigrad ), Corinium ( Karin Donji ), Aenona ( Nin ), civitas Pasini ( in Ražanac – Vinjerac – Posedarje range ), important island cities Absortium ( Apsorus – Osor ), Arba ( Rab ), Crexi ( Cres ), Gissa ( Cissa, Caska near Novalja, Pag ), Portunata ( Novalja, older was Gissa portu nota – Cissa known by its port Novalja ), by the coast colonia Iader ( Zadar with status of Roman colony ), Colentum insula ( Murter, city and island ).

In February 2012, during the Eastern European Cold Wave, the shoreline in Senj froze and snow piled up after a 150 km / h bora plummeted the temperature to-14 degrees celsius, with waves of 7 metres.

File: Senj riva 09022012 002. jpg | The view on a part of Senj's harbor chained with snow after a cold front ( February 9, 2012 )

File: Senj riva 09022012 004. jpg | A closeup of a part of Senj's harbor chained with snow after a cold front ( February 9, 2012 )

File: Senj riva 09022012 005. jpg | One of Senj's lighthouses in its harbor chained with snow after a cold front ( February 9, 2012 )

Velebit begins in the northwest near Senj with the Vratnik mountain pass and ends 145 km to the southeast near the source of the Zrmanja river northwest of Knin.

Major mountain passes on Velebit include the aforementioned Vratnik or Senjsko bilo at 694 m. a. s. l., where the Josephina connects Senj with Josipdol ; Oštarijska vrata at 928 m. a. s. l.

Large portions of the population began to travel to Senj in 1520 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the Balkan Peninsula with raids and destruction, bringing Senj natives together with those from the lands of Habsburg, other Croatians from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik, Albanians from southern Venetian territories, and Italians from the western shores of the Adriatic.

A raid by the Uskoks upon Istria resulted in an agreement between Venice and Austria, and Count Joseph de Rabatta was appointed to act as commissioner to those in Senj as well as the chief negotiator with the Venetians.

Rabatta came to Senj in 1600 with a strong bodyguard detail, and was very energetic.

He soon lost all military support, giving the Uskoks the opportunity to overthrow his rule and was ultimately killed in January 1602, enabling Senj to return to its usual state, with the fugitive Uskoks returning to Senj where they resumed their acts of piracy.

An agreement between the Habsburg and Venetians in 1618 expelled the Uskoks from Senj, sending them more inland into Croatia with very few families who were proven to be peaceful remaining in Senj, bringing their reign to its end.

File: Senj-bird-eye-01. jpg | Senj, as seen from the hillside above on a windy day.

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.

Today, there's a Bunjevci Museum, football squad Bunjevac and Bunjevačka ulica ( Bunjevac street ) in Senj.

In 1463, the king Matthias Corvinus founded the banovina of Jajce and Srebrenik, and in 1469 the military captaincy of Senj, modeled after the Ottoman captaincies in the Province of Bosnia.

Near the towns of Senj, Stara Novalja, Karlobag and the southern portal of the Sveti Rok Tunnel in Croatia, it can reach speeds of up to 220 kilometers per hour.

As a military outpost of the Habsburg Monarchy, Karlovac was the site of the trial and execution of the best-known leader of the rebel Uskoks from the coastal fort of Senj, Ivan Vlatković.

When the Treaty of Madrid was concluded in 1617, bringing an end to the war between Venice and the Habsburgs, under the terms of the treaty the Uskok families were forcibly removed from Senj and disbanded into the hinterland, most notably in the Žumberak hills near Karlovac.

Among them there were ban Petar Berislavić who won a victory at Dubica on the Una river in 1513, the captain of Senj and prince of Klis Petar Kružić, who defended the Klis Fortress for almost 25 years, captain Nikola Jurišić who deterred by a magnitude larger Turkish force on their way to Vienna in 1532, or ban Nikola Šubić Zrinski who helped save Pest from occupation in 1542 and fought in the Battle of Szigetvar in 1566.

Senj has been inhabited since the prehistoric times.

A settlement called Attienities in today's Senj was mentioned in Greek documents dated 4th century BC.

The Senj Catholic diocese was established in 1169.

In 1248 the bishop of Senj was allowed by the Pope Innocent IV to use the Glagolitic alphabet and the vernacular language in liturgy.

The military captaincy of Senj was established in 1469 in order to defend from the invading Ottoman and Venetian armies, and the town sheltered thousands of refugees from the nearby occupied areas.

In that time in Senj lived uskoci, that where a tribe that dwelled in the fortress Nehaj.

The railway line built in 1873 between Fiume ( Rijeka ) and Karlovac didn't go past Senj and this deterred its further development.