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Smiljan (pronounced) is a village in the mountainous region of Western Lika in Croatia. It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) northwest of Gospić, and fifteen kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway; its population is 418 (2011). Smiljan is the birthplace of Serbian inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.
Dec 1, 2023 · Let us learn about Nikola Tesla, the dreamer and wizard of electricity, and his hometown village of Smiljan, Croatia.
May 20, 2019 · Smiljan: What to See & Things to Do in Tesla’s Village. Smiljan, a small village in the mountainous Lika in Croatia, is a home to the most famous and respected inventor, engineer and scientist in the world – Nikola Tesla.
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The Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is a cultural-historical site and museum located in Smiljan, Croatia, located at the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, one of the world's foremost engineers and inventors.
Explore the early life of Nikola Tesla and how his birthplace in Smiljan, Croatia influenced his journey to becoming an electrical pioneer.
The restored birth house, its new museum exhibition, the surroundings and the accompanying exterior monuments as well as the newly built facilities together comprise the present-day Memorial Center "Nikola Tesla" Smiljan. It was opened on July 10th, 2006, on the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth. 1856. Nikola Tesla was born.
Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village Smiljan, Lika county, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July, 1856. His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was an Eastern Orthodox priest and the family lived in the parsonage near the church.
