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Zagreb

Location: Central Croatia

Description of Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city in Croatia in addition, it is the scientific and economic center of the Republic of Croatia. According to the municipality of the city, the population of Zagreb in 2011 was 790,017 according to the Croatian statistics office. Zagreb is located between Mount Medvednica and the river Sava. Its favorable geographic position in the southeast of Panonia, which extends towards the Alpine area, the Dinaric Alps, the Adriatic and the Pannonian regions, gives it a perfect connection with Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea. In Zagreb is the seat of government of the country and almost all the ministries of the Croatian government.

Travel Destinations in Zagreb

Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Zagreb)

Church of Saint Francis (Zagreb)

Kaptol 9

Tel. (01) 481 1125

Open: 7am- 12pm, 3- 7pm daily

History of Zagreb

The area of ​​the city of Zagreb was inhabited since the Neolithic period. In Roman times, Zagreb was a Roman city of Andautonia. The city was mentioned for the first time in the 11th century, more precisely in the year 1094 when the King of Hungary Ladislaus I founded a diocese on Mount Kaptol. On the neighboring hill of Gradec another independent community of the diocese was developed. Both localities would suffer the invasion of the Mongols in 1242. But once the Mongol danger had disappeared, King Bela IV made Gradec, a city of the kingdom. That is, a city was not subject to a feudal lordship, to attract forest artisans.

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Gradec and Kaptol would compete with each other economically and politically. During the long disputes, the diocesan city could isolate Gradec, who responded by setting fire to his rival. The two centers collaborated with each other, only for commercial reasons, such as during the three major fairs that lasted two weeks disguised during the year.

In 1851 the two localities became a single city, Zagreb. Together they are now the cultural center of the Croatian capital (the old city), while the commercial and business hub is further south. The diocese of Kaptol was the one that gave birth to the current archdiocese of Zagreb. During the time when the Croatian territory was dominated by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city took the name of Agram, its name in German. The railroad was built in 1860. The neighborhoods of the working class were located between the train track and the river Sava, while the construction of residential neighborhoods around southern Medvednica were completed between the two world wars.

The area between the railway line and the river Sava has been filled with new buildings after the Second World War. In the mid-1950s, the construction of new residences south of the Sava River began in what was called the New Zagreb. The city also expanded towards the west and towards the east, incorporating the communities of Dubrava, Podsused, Jarun, Blato, among others.

The railway freight station and the Zagreb International Airport were built on the south bank of the Sava River. The largest industrial area of ​​the city lies precisely to the southeast, between the Sava and the Prigorje region.