Gospić is a town in Croatia, Lika region. It is the center of the Lika-Senj county and it has a population 6,088 (2001), total municipality population 12,980 (2001), making it the third smallest town that's also the center of county government in the country (Lika is a mountainous, sparsely populated region).

Gospić is located on the Ličina river in the middle of a karst field. The first organized inhabitation of the area was recorded in 1263 as Kaseg or Kasezi. The name Gospić was first mentioned in 1604, and it likely originates in the Croatian word for "Lady", Gospa or another archaic form, Gospava.

Today's town was built around two Ottoman forts (the towers of aga Senković and of aga Alić). The Turkish incursion was repelled by the end of the 17th century and Gospić became an administrative center of the Lika region within the Military Frontier.

The Gospić municipality was the birthplace of such great men as the physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla, and also national thinkers like Ante Starčević.

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