Here is how the major biographies of Tesla have characterized his place of origin   Tesla Inventor of the Electrical Age  W Bernard Carlson Princeton University Press May   p   Nikola Tesla was born in  in Smiljan in the province of Lika in what is today Croatia At that time Croatia was the military frontier district of AustroHungarian Empire and the area sometimes referred to as Krajina   Smiljan Austrian Empire Modern Day Croatia  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire modernday Croatia    Tesla Man Out of Time  Margaret Cheney Simon and Schuster Oct   p    Nikola Tesla was born at precisely midnight between July  and   in the village of Smiljan province of Lika Croatia between Yugoslavias Velebit Mountains and the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea   Smiljan Croatian    Wizard The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla Marc J Seifer Citadel Press May   p   It was during a crackling summer storm in Smiljan a small hamlet at the back edge of a plateau set high in the mountains when Nikola Tesla was born The Serbian family resided in the province of Lika a plateau and gentle river valley in Croatia where wild boar and deer still dwell  In the early s having been briefly part of Napoleons Illyrian provinces Croatia was now a domain of AustriaHungary With its neighboring Slavic countries of Bosnia Herzegovina Montenegro Serbia an Slovenia Croatia was sandwiched between the ruling Hapsburg dynasty to the north and the Ottoman Empire to the south   Smiljan Croatian  Smiljan Austrian Empire Modern Day Croatia  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire modernday Croatia   Nikola Tesla A Spark of Genius Carol DommermuthCosta TwentyFirst Century Books   p Nikola Tesla was born at midnight between July  and   in Smiljan a small village in Croatia    Smiljan Croatian    Prodigal Genius The Life of Nikola Tesla James ONeill Ives Washburn  p    There was no evidence whatever that a superman ws being born when the stroke of midnight between July  and  in the year  brought a son Nikola to the home of the Rev Milutin Teslan and Djouka his wife in the hamlet of Smiljan I the AustroHungarian border province of Lika now a part of Yugoslavia   Smiljan Austrian Empire Modern Day Croatia  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire modernday Croatia    The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla The inventions researches and writings of Nikola Tesla Thomas C Martin Nikola Tesla Health Research Books Nov    p    Nikola Tesla was born in  at Smiljan Lika a borderland region of AustroHungary of the Serbian race Which as maintained against Turkey and all comer so unceasing a struggle for freedom   Smiljan Austrian Empire Modern Day Croatia  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire  Smiljan Croatian Military Frontier Austrian Empire modernday Croatia   There just isnt consensus among Teslas biographers for this and I strongly suggest tha