Bukovica, Dalmatia

It lies in northern Dalmatia, with Lika to the north, Kninska Krajina to the east, and Ravni Kotari to the southwest.

Their basic economic activity was related to transhumant livestock breeding in conjunction with carrying merchants’ goods.

[2] Many Vlachs (also recorded as Morlachs) moved to the Ottoman areas in the Dalmatian hinterland which were occupied by 1573 from Bukovica.

Bukovica covers a triangular area between the towns of Benkovac, Obrovac, and Knin.

The region includes the municipalities of Jasenice, Ervenik, Kistanje, and Lišane Ostrovičke.

Typical Bukovica landscape: Keglević family castle ruins near Mokro Polje in northeastern Bukovica.