Murter is a croatian island in the Adriatic sea. The island is in the northwest part of the Šibenik archipelago with lots of sandy beaches, separated from the mainland by a 20 meter wide sea canal.

It is connected to the mainland by a 37 meters long draw-bridge. The proximity of National Parks - Kornati (15 km) and Paklenica (100km), make the island an even more attractive place to spend your vacation and recharge your body and spirit. The island covers an area of about 18,7 km² , and the highest peak Raduč, stands 125 meters above sea level. The mainly steep southwest coast is divided by many sandy coves. On the northeast tree covered coast, formed the towns Jezera and Tisno, and on the northwest side of the island, around fields with many wells, Betina and Murter under the Raduč peak.

The island has been populated for ages, the oldest known residents where the Illyrians, to which testifies an illyric-roman settlement Colentum near Betina. In the 13th century there existed two major settlements on the island Jezera and Veliko selo, Srimač (todays Murter). Betina and Tisno were built in the time of Turkish attacks on this area, most likely at the begging of the 15th century. The island of Murter is mentioned in the year 1318 as Insula Mortari. Archeological sites worth seeing are the peninsula Gradina between Betina and Murter, Plitka vala between Tisno and Betina, Ivinj on the mainland side of Tisno and the little island of Mali Vinik. There are many preserved document written in glagolitics, and old slavenian native language (and not Latin!) was used for conducting religious ceremonies up to the 18th century. Preserved clergy books written in glagolitics were printed in Rome (18th - 20th century), as well as many parish publishings. Current population is about 5192 inhabitants.