Valun

Valun Vallòn di Cherso
Village
Valun city centre
Valun
Coordinates: 44.90524°N 14.35980°E / 44.90524; 14.35980
Country	Croatia
County	Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Town	Cres
Area [1]
• Total	8.3 km^2 (3.2 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	64
• Density	7.7/km^2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	51557
Area code	051
Vehicle registration	RI

Valun (Italian: Vallòn di Cherso) is a village located on the Croatian island of Cres, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar. Administratively, it is part of the town of Cres. As of 2021, it had a population of 64.^[2]

Valun is a fisherman’s village located to the southwest of the town of Cres. The village of Valun was founded as a port of the now abandoned village of Bućov.

The village is famous for being the location where one of the oldest Croatian Glagolitic inscriptions, the Valun tablet, was found.

References

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.

External links

Media related to Valun at Wikimedia Commons