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Flag of a small municipality in Croatia - as seen on a TV reportage on the region (23-NOV-1999, HRT 1). Polača - a municipality in hinterland of northern Dalmatia, behind coastal city of Zadar, in region known as Ravni Kotari. It main place is one of several places in Croatia bearing that name, and is therefore often written as Polača (Benkovac), accoriding to a bigger city some 10 km more from the coast. However, it is the only community with this name. Polaca was right on the frontline in the latest war (actually forming the border of Republic of Srpska Krajina) and sufered much devastation. The community is today part of Zadarska zupanija. When it was formed in 1992 by the general adminsitrative reform the county was called Zadarsko-kninska and at that time the Community of Polaca was included in theory in Kotar Knin (semi-authonomous subdivision created as possible compromise which Croatian Serbs, but which never lived up due to the virtual occupation). With 1997 reform the two kotars were de jure abolished from Croatian subdivision system, and the previous Zadarsko-kninska zupanija was divided more naturally (and lost Knin region to Sibensk