Institutions (past and present)

Police (“Gendarmerie”) Station opened in 1852.

First municipal doctor (G.P.) stationed in Janjina in1863.

Post Office opened in 1865.

Telegraph introduced 1^st April 1871.

Port Authority Office opened (at Drače) in1892, closed by 1947.

Forestry Office opened in 1905, closed in1914.

Roads and  Ports (history of development)

Between 1808 and1814, under French (Napoleon’s) military authority, the road linking Ston and Orebić was built. This old road, known today as “Kraljev put” [King’s Road], is the first road that went almost the whole lenght of the peninsula.

In the year 1820, Janjina-Dol-Rat road, was completed.

In 1830, the old Janjina-Drače (via Vardište) road was built.

In 1863, Janjina-Popova Luka-Trstenik road was completed.

In 1890, the new Janjina-Drače road was built. This road follows more southerly route then the old one.

In 1890, Austrian Maritime authority built a warf (the “Old Warf”) for steamships at Drače.

In 1894, Capt. S. N. Bjelovučić built a road that follows the shoreline from Drače to Sutvid.

In 1910, Janjina’s Main Street was built. It was sealed (concreted) 43 years later, in 1953.

In 1937, new shoreline was built in Sreser and a warf for larger vessels.

In 1937/38, The Maritime Authority built a warf for large vessels at the Bjelovučić’s mansion in the bay of Sutvid.

In 1954, the Putniković-Janjina-Pijavičino road was built. Today it is a part of the Pelješac (Main) Road.

(Janjina's Maritime Heritage)

Associations/Institutions  (history)

In 1902, Janjina’s Credit Union founded.

In 1909, Olive Oil Cooperative founded.

In 1910, Bee-keepers Cooperative founded.

In 1921, Fishery Cooperative founded.

In 1921, Hunters Association founded.

In 1924, Winemakers-Grapegrowers Cooperative founded.

In 1925, regional branch of Zagreb based “Hrvatski radiša” [Croatian Worker] founded.

In 1940, Janjina’s “Consumer-Trade Association” was founded, from which, after the Second World War, the “Agricultural Cooperative of Janjina” was born.

In 1942, Fishery Cooperative founded – again.

In 1948, the electrification of Janjina, Popova Luka and Sreser was completed. The electrical power came from the diesel-generator housed in the Olive Oil Cooperative building.

In 1961, on the initiative of the new socialist government the municipality of Janjina founds the “Naprijed” [Advance] Trading Company, which takes over all of the Agricultural Cooperative’s trading activities. In 1969 the trading company is disbanded and its business is taken over by the trading firms “Budućnost” from Dubrovnik and “Razvitak” from Metković.

In 1962, Janjina loses its municipality and its teritory is absorbed in the Municipality of Dubrovnik.

In 1963, Janjina’s Tourism Association founded.

In 1964, Sreser’s Tourism Association founded.

Schools (history)

In 1828, Janjina gets its first school -- Janjina’s Boy’s Public School.

In 1882, the Girl’s Public School opened.

In 1920, Sreser gets its co-ed public school. The school closed in 1932 due to insuficient number of children.

In 1927, the new (present-day) Public School building was built.  

In 1928, “Građanska” [Civic] School of Janjina opened. Closed in 1937 due to insuficient number of children.
In 1932, Pre-School opened in Janjina, (closed in 1978).

In 1932, Janjina gets its “Women’s Training School”, (closed in 1943).

Culture

In 1635, the first statute of Janjina’s Fraternity of St. Stephen was written.

In 1848, Croatian National Guard founded in Janjina. 

In 1893, Janjina’s Public Wellfare Society founded.

In 1896, Croatian Cultural-Educational Society “Zvonimir” was founded in Janjina. The society had its Reading Room, the *“Tamburica” orchestra and its amateur theatre section.

In 1908, founded “Hrvatski sokol” [Croatian Falcon], a sporting and cultural association. In 1912, the association built its hall “Sokolana” with the stage for performances.

In 1912, “Težačka sloga”, (agricultural workers association) founded in Janjina and opened its reading room.

1914, musical instruments for Janjina’s “Fanfare”  purchased. Fanfare later become Janjina’s brass band.

In 1921, Esperanto Club and the singing society “Slava” founded.

In 1924, the Chess Society founded, with its own library and reading room. Also in the same year Janjina’s soccer club “Iskra” was founded.
In 1951, Janjina’s Hall was completed, oficially called “Dom Kulture”  [the Culture Hall].
In 1953, the Hall gets its cinema projector.
In 1958, Popova Luka gets its Reading Room.
In 1960, building of the Reading Room in Sreser begins.
In1973, Janjina’s Volunteer Firefighters Association founded.

 Old unused stone column from the quarry of Osobljava. The length 6.5m, diameter 0.75m

*Tamburica [tam-bou-ritza] –  Croatian traditional stringed instrument, a type of mandolin.

For those who want to know more.

N. Z. BJELOVUČIĆ, 1922. “Povjesničke crte Janjine” [Historical Lines about Janjina], Split.

N. Z. BJELOVUČIĆ, 1922. “Povijest poluotoka Rata ili Pelješca, Hercegovine i Dubrovnika” [History of the Peninsula of Rat or Pelješac, and of Herzegovina and Dubrovnik]. Split.

N. Z. BJELOVUČIĆ, 1923. “Poluotok Rat ili Pelješac” [The Peninsula of Rat or Pelješac]. Beograd [Belgrade]

S. ĆOSIĆ, N. KAPETANIĆ, P. LJUBIĆ, N. VEKARIĆ, 1999. “Hrvatska granica na Kleku” [Croatian Border at Klek] Dubrovnik.

V. JASPRICA, 1976. “Povjesna kronika Janjine” [Historical Cronicle of Janjina]. Janjina.

N. VEKARIĆ, 1989. “Pelješka naselja u 14. stoljeću”. JAZU, Posebna izdanja, Knjiga 8. [Pelješac's 14^th Century Settlements. JAZU, Special Editions, Book 8.]

N. VEKARIĆ, 1991. “Migracije na poluotok Pelješac (1333-1918).” Doktorska disertacija. Filozofski fakultet, Zadar. [Migrations on the Peninsula of Pelješac (1333-1918). Doctorate disertation, Faculty of Philosophy, Zadar].

N. VEKARIĆ,  1992a. “Stanovništvo poluotoka Pelješca,” Svezak 1, [Population of the Pelješac Peninsula, Vol. 1]  Dubrovnik.

N. VEKARIĆ, 1992b. “Prijedlog za klasifikaciju peljeških prezimena” [Proposal for the Clasification of Pelješac’s Family Names], HAZU.

N. VEKARIĆ, 1995-95. “Pelješki rodovi.”[Family Clans of Pelješac] HAZU.