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3 unusual facts about Petrova Gora


Croats in the Czech Republic

They believed that the colonization of the Croats started from the Croatian regions south of the Kupa and Petrova Gora, better known as Banska Krajina or today Banovina, was summarized by Adolf Turek.

Petrova Gora

Starting in 1940, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, from makeshift underground printing rooms on the mountain, started printing Vjesnik, a daily newspaper that was printed daily in Croatia until 2012.

The mountain used to be named Gvozd (Croatian for 'forest'), but was renamed after 1097 to honour Petar Svačić, the last native king of Croatia who died on the mountain in a battle against Coloman of Hungary.



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