is also popular in Knin with an amateur women's and men's club playing in lower tiers. The Croatian National basketball team has played a match in Knin. They played against Israel in 1999 where Croatia won the match 78:68. Other sports played in Knin are rugby, handball, volleyball, kickboxing, karate, tennis and taekwondo. In 2007 the Croatia national rugby union team beat an Irish Barbarians side to win their first ever trophy, the St. Patrick's Day Cup organised by Alan Moore in Knin. Transport The most important intercity roadway in Knin is the Croatian state route D1. The route makes for easy access of Knin from the major coastal city of Split. The section of D1 from Knin to A1 highway will be upgraded to the expressway level in following years (with B1 expressway). Knin is also an important railway junction as the railroads from the rest of Dalmatia and its cities of Zadar, Split and Šibenik pass through Knin, going north to the capital city of Croatia, Zagreb, via M604 railway. There are four lines meeting in Knin station: to Perković (and then to Split or Šibenik), to Zadar, to Ogulin (and onwards to Karlovac, Zagreb) and to Martin Brod (and Bihać, Sisak, Zagreb). Only the former three lines offer passenger transport. The latter route, Knin-Bihać-Zagreb, passes through Bosnian territory, crossing the border many times, thus it is not used for passenger transport since the beginning of the war in 1991. However, it is the shortest route between Knin and Zagreb, and as such was electrified in 1984 (the catenary being subsequently destroyed by war operations in the early 1990s). Electrification had started from Yugoslav inland towards the coast and had only reached Knin, so today the Knin station sidings are equipped with overhead catenary, but lines leaving the town are not. Towns and villages in the municipality Golubić Knin Kninsko Polje Kovačić Ljubač Oćestovo Plavno Polača Potkonje Radljevac Strmica Vrpolje Žagrović Notable people Ratko Adamović (b. 1942), Serbian writer Marija Ilić Agapova (1895–1984), Serbian librarian and translator Dragana Atlija (b. 1986), Miss Serbia 2009 Milan Babić (1956–2006), 1st president of Republic of Serbian Krajina and former mayor of Knin (1913–1937), Yugoslav volunteer in the Spanish Civil War Frane Cota (1898–1951), Croatian sculptor at the 1924 Summer Olympics Momčilo Đujić (1907–1999), Dalmatian Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik voivode Electra Elite, Serbian singer and sex worker Branko Grčić (b. 1964),