Perusic is a municipality with 1300 inhabitants (603 meters above sea level), 10 kilometers north of Gospic on the road and railway line Gospic-Zagreb. In the centre of the town there is the chapel of St. Rok, built at the beginning of this century when on the plain by the road a settlement was being developed.
There is also the church of St. Kriz, which is architecturally similar to the Zagreb church of St. Catherine. This church had been a mosque for a very long time. On the neighboring hill the Perusic family built a castle in the 15th century, which was mentioned in 1487.
When Perusic was conquered by the Turks in 1527, it became the capital of the Turkish Lika, and the church of St. Kriz was turned into a mosque without any construction works. That was the place where Petar Zrinski defeated the Turks in 1667. Once there was a Roman settlement Samogrd. The church of St. Kriz was built in 1698. The village Kvatre with the remnants of the Sititar tower from the Roman period is in the neighborhood.
There was a Roman lamp found containing the liquid called kvatre, after which the village was named. There was also a Roman place Epidotum in this area.
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