Skradin (; ) is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia. It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and from Split. The main attraction of the park, Slapovi Krke, is a series of waterfalls, the biggest of which, Skradinski buk, was named after Skradin.
It was a Liburnian city, named Scardon (). Later it became a Roman town (Scardona in Latin), as the administrative and military centre of the region. It was destroyed during the Migration Period, and had by the 9th century been settled by Croats. During the 10th century, it was one of the fortified towns in Croatia, as the centre of the Skradin županija. Skradin under Šubić rule left In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Skradin flourished as the capital of the Šubić bans, Paul I and Mladen II. The Šubić's built the Turina fortress on the hill overlooking the Skradin harbor. They elevated the settlement below the fortress to a free city, at which point it also became a commune, and was granted its own statute and administration. They further enriched the city by constructing several richly-endowed monasteries which housed the Dominicans, Franciscans and other Christian orders. Decline and Ottoman conquest left Between 1522 and 1684 it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then again up to 1794 by the Republic of Venice. In October 1683, the population of Venetian Dalmatia, principally Uskoks of Ravni kotari, took arms and together with the rayah (lower class) of the Ottoman frontier regions rose up, taking Skradin, Karin, Vrana, Benkovac and Obrovac. Later, it was occupied by Napoleon as part of the French Empire, then Austria-Hungary. In time it lost its importance as the centre of the region, which shifted to Šibenik, and so it stagnated - the Diocese of Skradin was abandoned in 1828.
The municipality has a total population of 3,825 (2011 census). Its population is divided into the following settlements: Bićine, population 174 Bratiškovci, population 251 Bribir, population 103 Cicvare, population 18 Dubravice, population 594 Gorice, population 27 Gračac, population 179 Ićevo, population 59 Krković, population 189 Lađevci, population 112 Međare, population 6 Piramatovci, population 275 Plastovo, population 204 Rupe, population 470 Skradin, population 588 Skradinsko Polje, population 46 Sonković, population 336 Vaćani, population 120 Velika Glava, population 29 Žažvić, population 30 Ždrapanj, population 15
Filip Dominik Bordini - priest and bishop Lujo Marun - priest and archaeologist Josip Mrkica - priest and writer Rüstem Pasha - Ottoman leader (birthplace uncertain) Zdravko Škender - singer