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Ploče

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Ploče (plɔ̂tʃɛ; Porto Tolero) is a town and seaport in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. Ploče is located on the Adriatic coast in Dalmatia just north of the Neretva Delta and is the natural seaside endpoint of most north-south routes through the central Dinaric Alps. This makes it the primary seaport used by Bosnia and Herzegovina and the endpoint of the Pan-European corridor 5C. Čeveljuša is a toponym in Ploče, located to the east of the town, on the intersection of the D8 highway and the D425. Ploče is the location of Croatia's high temperature record, measured at on 4 and 5 August 1981. The town was first mentioned in 1387 as Ploča. During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a port named Aleksandrovo after Alexander I of Yugoslavia was constructed in 1939. During the socialist Yugoslavia, between 1950 and 1954, and again from 1980 to 1990, Ploče was named Kardeljevo after the Yugoslav politician Edvard Kardelj. Some locals call their city Ploča (the stone). According to the 2021 census, its population was 8,220 with 4,711 living in the city proper. The total population of Ploče was 10,135 in 2011, in the following settlements: Baćina, population 572 Banja, population 173 Komin, population 1,243 Peračko Blato, population 288 Plina Jezero, population 44 Ploče, population 6,013 Rogotin, population 665 Staševica, population 902 Šarić Struga, population 235 In the 2011 census, the majority of its citizens were Croats at 95.93%. Port of Ploče The Port of Ploče was first mentioned on 6 November 1387, but the building of a larger port was done in recent modern times. Work on the present day harbour first began in 1939 but was destroyed during World War II. It was rebuilt in 1945 and the village of Ploče grew up to 480 inhabitants in 1948. After the Adriatic road and Neretva railway lines were built to the port in the mid-1960s, the town experienced a steady growth.
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