Sunger

Not to be confused with Singer.

Village in Croatia

Sunger

Village

Sunger in Sungerska kotlina

Sunger

Coordinates: 45°19′23″N 14°49′11″E﻿ / ﻿45.323065°N 14.819684°E﻿ / 45.323065; 14.819684
Country|  Croatia
County| Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
City| Mrkopalj
Area

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• Total

| 14.3 km2 (5.5 sq mi)
Population

(2021)[2]

• Total

| 262
• Density| 18/km2 (47/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code|

51326

Area code| +385 051

Sunger is a village in Croatia, in the Mrkopalj municipality, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

## History

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The volunteer fire department DVD Sunger was founded in 1906, and is today part of the VZ općine Fužine.[3] Its current commander is Mladen Tomić.[4]

### WWII

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The Italians withdrew from Mrkopalj on 15 March 1942, on the same day as Mrkopalj and Ravna Gora. The Italians did not leave those towns along the railway, which they fortified with barbed wire.[5]

On 5 July in Sunger, a Croatian soldier killed an Italian soldier by stabbing him 7 times with a knife.[6]

### Recent

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Around 20:30 on 11 July 2010, firefighters were called to the house of a family in Sunger. The JVP Delnice, DVD Sunger and DVD Mrkopalj responded, putting the fire out at 23:30, but not before the house had burned down.[7]

Nedeljko Kosanović of Gomirje managed to capture on camera a wolf carrying its prey in its mouth near the sawmill in Sunger. In late June 2011, four Eurasian brown bears attacked a herd of cattle. In August 2011, a pack of wolves attacked and killed an adult Cervus elaphus individual near the first houses in the middle of Sunger, shortly after which a faun found shelter from the wolves in a resident's yard.[8]

In the evening of 3 May 2018, a car hit a pole in Sunger, leaving the driver in need of medical attention.[9]

## Demographics

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Village of Sunger: Population trends 1857–2021

population|

665

606

651

705

706

609

482

485

577

518

467

464

434

387

333

326

262

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Note:"Sungeri" until 1948. Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

## Sports

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Beginning in 2013,[10] the 7 stage 260 kilometres (160 mi) long Cycling Trail of Gorski Kotar (Croatian: Goranska biciklistička transverzala) passes through Sunger.[11]

## Gallery

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* Old postcard of centre

* Centre today

* Sv. Ćirila i Metoda church

* School in Sunger

* Karolina [hr] overpass

* Well along the Karolina

## References

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1. ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. ^ Jagodin, Nikola; Runjić, Vedran (2022). "Popis vatrogasnih organizacija s datumima osnivanja" [List of Firefighting Organisations with Date of Founding]. Muzej hrvatskog vatrogastva (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2023-01-30.
4. ^ n.s. (2015–2025). "Požarno područje Gorski kotar III - ČABAR". Vatrogasna zajednica Primorsko-goranske županije. Archived from the original on 2025-03-29.
5. ^ Trgo 1964, p. 227.
6. ^ Trgo 1964, p. 394.
7. ^ Večernji list (2010-07-11). "Mrkopalj: izgorjela kuća u Sungeru". Vatrogasni portal Hrvatske (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2010-09-17.
8. ^ n.s. (2015–2025). "Požarno područje Gorski kotar VI - FUŽINE / MRKOPALJ". Vatrogasna zajednica Primorsko-goranske županije. Archived from the original on 2025-03-29.
9. ^ VZPGŽ (2019-07-29). "Intervencije na dan 03. svibanj 2018". Archived from the original on 2018-06-21.
10. ^ Krmpotić, Marinko (2013-11-21). "Gorski kotar Bike: Goranska biciklistička transverzala duga 260 km". Novi list. ISSN 0350-4301. Archived from the original on 2025-03-28.
11. ^ n.s. (2020). "Cycling Trail of Gorski Kotar stages". Gorski kotar Bike.

## Further reading

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### Dialectology

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* Crnić Novosel, Mirjana (2019). Štokavski ikavski govori u Gorskome kotaru. Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. ISBN 978-953-7967-81-9.
* Review: Galović, Filip (2020). "Vrsna monografija o štokavskim ikavskim govorima Gorskoga kotara". Čakavska rič: Polugodišnjak za proučavanje čakavske riječi. 48 (1–2): 161–169\. eISSN 1849-1081.1–2&rft.pages=161-169&rft.date=2020&rft.eissn=1849-1081&rft.aulast=Galović&rft.aufirst=Filip&rft_id=https://hrcak.srce.hr/251344&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Sunger" class="Z3988">
* Review: Šupljika, Darja (2021). "Štokavske ikavske oaze Gorskoga kotara: Mirjana Crnić Novosel. Štokavski ikavski govori u Gorskome kotaru. Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, 2019., 242 str". Filologija (76): 268–274\. eISSN 1848-8919.

### History

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* Trgo, Fabijan, ed. (1964). Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o Narodno-oslobodilačkom ratu Jugoslovenskih naroda. Vol. V, 32.