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
Ethnic group Population2013 Population1991 Population1981 Population1971 Population1961Bosniaks/Muslims308 (81.91%)306 (72.17%)306 (71.50%)299 (71.87%)290 (66.82%)Croats67 (17.82%)76 (17.92%)73 (17.06%)66 (15.87%)65 (14.98%)Serbs036 (8.49%)43 (10.05%)50 (12.02%)79 (18.20%)Others or unknown1 (0.27%)6 (1.42%)6 (1.40%)1 (0.24%)0Total376424428416434
Footnotes
Bibliography