ОКЛОБЏИЈA (Oklobdžija)

 

 

Family houses

 Austrian Nobility title:(Von Kukburg1783)

Nikola Tesla

Lika in WW-II

300 years lost cousin

 

 

 

 

Houses in Lika - origins:

There were 7 houses of Oklobdžija there (according to Jovo's testimony / memory)  (44.431376, 15.536634 on Google Maps):  

See maps of the region Jovo is my cousin whose existence was unknown to me. This is because he left around 1915 and never returned home. At home he lef a wife and 5 children. I found him by chance in Redwood City California and visited him in 1977. We kept in touch until he passed away in 1987. At one of our last meetings I wrote and recorded his memories that go to the beginning of the 20th century. His mind was sharp and those memories are the testimony of the time that I do not know, nor my father remembered well.

 

   
 
houses were off the road to Medak constructed in a semi-circle and there was a water well next to the road which is still standing:
    Road to Oklobdžija houses    

Oklobdžija Bunar

(Oklobdžija Water Well)

perhaps 200 years old

   
 
 

Map of houses in Papuca / near Medak      

  (another map of Jovo)

According to my memory and understanding of his writing the houses go in this order:

Makiceva

Dmitrova

Strica Nikole Lugara (Mikina sada)

Petrova

Nasa (Jovo's father?)

Steulina

Popa Tanasije