Rab island Croatia - Goli otok (‘Naked Island’)

Rab island Croatia - Goli otok (‘Naked Island’) - The island used to be uninhabited until World War One, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire (to which these parts then belonged) started sending POWs from Russia to the island. But it was abandoned again after the war, when the island fell into Italian possession and was only used for grazing sheep. However, it resumed being used as a prison in the post-WWII Yugoslav era under its communist leader Tito.