GraÃÂac (; ) is a municipality in the southern part of Lika, Croatia. The municipality is administratively part of Zadar County.
GraÃÂac is located south of Udbina, northeast of Obrovac, northwest of Knin and southeast of GospiÃÂ.
Since records began in 1960, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was , on 2 August 2017. The coldest temperature was , on 13 January 2003.
GraÃÂac was ruled by the Ottoman Empire between 1527 and 1687 (nominally to 1699) as part of the Sanjak of Lika in the Bosnia Eyalet before Austrian conquest. The 1712âÂÂ14 census of Lika and Krbava registered 1,711 inhabitants, out of whom 1,655 were Vlachs, 53 were Catholic Bunjevci and 3 were Catholic Croats. The term "Vlach" was used at the time to describe a population of Eastern Orthodox religion and rarely as an ethnic group. Those families that moved to GraÃÂac came from area south east of Belgrade.
On 20 December 1865, judge Josifoviàof the OtoÃÂac court caused a scandal by sentencing 70 year old GraÃÂac parish priest Jovan Radoà ¡eviàto 6 months imprisonment for failure to pay the interest on a 22 franc loan by the year's end. Radoà ¡eviÃÂ's opponents replaced him with priest ÃÂuro Alaga.
From 1991 to 1995, GraÃÂac was part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. In August of 1995, the town was taken over by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. At least 14 Serb civilians were killed by the Croatian Army in the nearby Kijani village during and in the aftermath of Operation Storm in August 1995.
The area of GraÃÂac was not part of the Austro-Hungarian crown land of Dalmatia, but it is often perceived as part of Dalmatia in the modern sense because of its inclusion in Zadar County.
In 2021, the municipality had 3,136 residents in the following 39 settlements:
Note: in some censuses, such as in 1981, parts of the population listed themselves as Yugoslavs instead of Croat or Serb.
Serbian and Croatian are co-official at the municipal level in GraÃÂac. As of 2023, most of the legal requirements for the fulfillment of bilingual standards have not been carried out. Cyrillic is not used official building signage, street signs, traffic signs or seals. Within official documents, it is only occasionally used on certain forms. There are no public legal and administrative employees proficient in the script.
Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Serbs of Croatia fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members minority councils of the Municipality of GraÃÂac.
The name GraÃÂac is derived from "gradina" which means an old abandoned castle. Near the town there are Lake à  tikada and the karst field of GraÃÂac. The Cerovac caves nearby are open for tourists. The town is on the way into the Lika region of Zadar county, and the surroundings offer good hunting game.
The local HPS chapter was called HPD "Crnopac". It was liquidated on 20 January 1939.