Kanfanar
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Kanfanar (Italian: Canfanaro) is a small town and municipality in the central part of Istria, Croatia, 20 km northeast of Rovinj, on the edge of the Lim Cove, on the open limestone plain of Istria. The elevation is 281 m.
Chief occupations are farming and livestock breeding. Kanfanar lies at the intersection of the main road (M2) of the so-called Istrian Y and a regional road, as well as on the Divača - Pula railway, and was formerly the connected by train to Rovinj ran.
During the Second World War, German soldiers shelled the town and then burnt many buildings to the ground. They also executed many of its inhabitants, who are locally remembered as the September Victims[link].
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