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72 unusual facts about Zagreb


16th Air Expeditionary Wing

It operated expeditionary sites at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo; Camp Able Sentry, Macedonia; Sarajevo and Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia; Taszar Air Base, Hungary; Zagreb, Croatia and Naval Air Station Sigonella and San Vito Air Station, Italy; in addition to a contingency processing center at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.

1880 Zagreb earthquake

The 1880 earthquake which struck Zagreb (also known as The Great Zagreb Earthquake) was a 8.0 magnitude earthquake which occurred on 9 November 1880.

1999 Military World Games

The 1999 Military World Games was the second edition of the Military World Games, were held in Zagreb, Croatia from 8 August to 17 August.

2003–04 ABA Goodyear League

There were 26 rounds played in the regular part of the season, best four teams qualified for the Final Four Tournament which was played in Zagreb from April 16 until April 18, 2004.

2005 Golden Spin of Zagreb

The competition was held between November 11 and November 13, 2005 in the Dom Sportova in Zagreb, Croatia.

2007 Croatian Figure Skating Championships

The competition took place between 16 December and 17 December, 2006 in Zagreb.

2008 Kosovo declaration of independence

On 23 February, 44 protesters were arrested after burning the Serbian flag, in the main square of Zagreb (Croatia), following Serb protesters attacking the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

2010 Croatian Figure Skating Championships

The competition took place between 19 December and 20 December in the Zagrebacki Velesajam in Zagreb.

2011 Croatian Figure Skating Championships

The competition took place between 18 December and 19 December in the in Zagreb.

Achtung, die Kurve!

In December 2006, third tournament took place at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia.

Ahmad ibn Rustah

:"Their ruler is crowned … He dwells in the midst of the Slavs … He bears the title of 'ruler of rulers' and is called 'sacred king'. He is more powerful than the Zupan (viceroy), who is his deputy … His capital is called Drzvab (Zagreb) where is held a fair of three days every month."

Ann Buckley

 77–91, Music, Words, and Images: Essays in Honour of Koraljka Kos, edited by Vjera Katalinić and Zdravko Blažeković, Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society, 1999.

Bat-El Gatterer

In 2008, competing in the under-55 kg class she won gold medals at the Dutch Open in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the German Open in Hamburg, Germany, and the Croatia Open in Zagreb, Croatia.

Centavia

Centavia was to be the first airline to operate flights from Belgrade to Zagreb since the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

The 1999 edition of Dora was held on 7 March at the HRT TV studios in Zagreb, hosted by Oliver Mlakar and Vlatka Pokos.

Croteam

Croteam is a Croatian independent game developer based in Zagreb.

Earth Group

The Earth Group (Croatian: Grupa Zemlja) was a Croatian arts collective and which brought together artists, architects and intellectuals and which was active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935.

Edmund Veesenmayer

At the beginning of 1941 he was attached to the German diplomatic staff in Zagreb (Croatia).

Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung

The locations for the film were Vienna and in the Croatian capital Zagreb.

Eltz Manor

In 1990, he returned from Eltville to the newly established state of Croatia and became a member of the Sabor parliament at Zagreb.

Fizir F1V

During factory tests, on 8 October 1926 Pilot V. Striževski flew the aircraft from Novi Sad to Skopje to Mostar to Rajlovac (Sarajevo) to Zagreb and returned to Novi Sad - a distance of 1,410 km - over a period of 8 hours and 40 minutes.

FK Bačka 1901

In 1945 the club was renamed to HAŠK Građanski (Croat Academical Sports Club Građanski) after the famous Zagreb side.

František Čáp

X-25 javlja ("X-25 Reports", 1960), a World War II spy thriller set in Zagreb, saw extensive international theatrical release.

Fulvia Plautilla

Originally found in Salona, it is now kept in the Archaeological museum in Zagreb.

Gansi

Gansi, the name itself is a reference to the American rock group Guns N' Roses and, is an ironic way in remembering Zagreb in the early 90s around the immortal club "Jabuka".

Gornji Grad

Gornji Grad, a historic neighborhood in Zagreb, Croatia (also known as Gradec)

Hamburg Altona

Before they temporarily split and go to their respective towns, they agree to meet in Zagreb and board the train to Hamburg together.

Hinduism in Croatia

The Department of Indology of the University of Zagreb celebrated its 250th birth anniversary by holding a seminar on 17 December 1998.

History of Dutch television

After that, Erik de Vries gave demonstrations in several countries, including 1939 demonstration in Zagreb.

Hladno pivo

These songs were recorded at Denis (a.k.a. Denyken) in Sopot, Zagreb.

Independent State of Croatia kuna

These included the Zagreb Government Region (Oblasni Narod. Oslobod. Odbor Zagrebačke Oblasti), the Croatian Anti-Fascist Authority (Zemaljsko Antifašističko Vijeće Hrvatske) and the Croatian Anti-Fascist Government Authority ZAVNOH (Zemaljsko Antifašističko Vijeće Narodnog Oslobodenja Hrvatske).

Ivan Padovec

Ivan Eugen Padovec (1800 – 1873), commonly known as Johann (Ivan) Padowetz (see the signature on the photo), born in the baroque town of Varaždin in Croatia (known for its festivals of baroque music) was a guitar virtuoso, who gave concerts in Zagreb, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, London, in Poland, Russia etc.

Jakuševec

Jakuševec (sometimes also Jakuševac) is a neighborhood in the Novi Zagreb – istok city district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

Jan Foltys

In 1947, he won (1.5 : 0.5) against Lodewijk Prins in The Hague (NED – CSR); won (2 : 0) against Harry Golombek in London (GB – CSR); won (2 : 0) against Ritson-Morry in Birmingham (MCCU – CSR); lost (0 : 2) to Nicolas Rossolimo in Paris (FRA – CSR); lost (0.5 : 1.5) to Vasja Pirc in Zagreb (YUG – CSR).

Janko Kamauf

Janko Kamauf was the last city magistrate of Gradec and the first mayor of Zagreb, Croatia.

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaroslav Dietl (22 May 1929, Zagreb – 29 June 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak scenarist of series.

Josip Štadler

He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it in Požega and Zagreb where he attended gymnasium.

Kanal, Zagreb

Kanal is a neighborhood in the city district of Trnje in Zagreb, Croatia.

Karlo Štajner

After an illegal communist printing house in Zagreb where Štajner worked was searched by the police in 1931, he fled Yugoslavia, visiting Paris, Vienna, and Berlin before finally settling in the Soviet Union in 1932 where he worked in the Comintern publishing house in Moscow.

Krvavi Most

Although the bridge became the street, the name stayed because of historical reasons – as a reminder of history and a witness of Zagreb's past.

The bridge gained its scary name because of the constant conflicts happening on its wooden beams between the citizens of the two parts of Zagreb: Gradec and present day Kaptol.

Liberty Bridge

Liberty Bridge, Zagreb, the first divided highway bridge in Zagreb, Croatia

Lollobrigida Girls

Sizeable covering in Croatian media, involving print, radio, and television, release of an anti-holiday single "Unhappy Christmas", and a performance at the big rock-concert Fiju Briju in Zagreb all enabled Lollobrigida to keep a high level of interest in the audience till the release of their debut album Cartoon Explosion, in May 2005.

Mária Lebstück

She was born into a wealthy German merchant family in Zagreb, and moved to Vienna at the age of 13 to live with her maternal uncle.

Milan Ćurčin

Milan Ćurčin (Pančevo, 14 November 1880-Zagreb, 20 January 1960) was a Serbian poet and editor of an influential magazine, printed in Zagreb during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Museum of Serbs of Croatia

During the World War II group of Croatian museum professionals collected some number of artifacts from churches and monasteries of Serbian Orthodox Church in Independent State of Croatia that escaped Ustaše destruction, and stored them in Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb.

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Three

Seabees supported the United Nations protection force operation "Provide Promise" by maintaining the U.S. Hospital at Zagreb, Croatia as well as installing surveillance equipment in Baghdad, Iraq.

Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar

During the same year, with the Ljudmila Stratimirović Hat Theater, the band had a successful tour of Slovenia, and on Spring of the following year, the band performed in Zagreb and Ljubljana on the Druga Godba festival.

Noemi Lung

A year before she captured a record-five gold medals at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb, just like America's Jill Sterkel did in 1981.

One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away

Set in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec).

Osman Karabegović

During 1936-1937 he studied medicine at the University of Zagreb and became a member of the Students' Committee of SKOJ and a member of the Action Committee in Belgrade.

In 1933, Karabegović entered the Veterinary Faculty in Zagreb.

Philippe DeRouville

DeRouville has received offers from 2 different teams on October 18, 2007 and signed on October 23, 2007 with the Croatian team KHL Medveščak from Zagreb, that plays in the Croatian and in the Slovenian league.

Pjesme za gladijatore

It is the band's sixth studio album and features 12 tracks recorded in 2006 and 2007 in Zagreb.

Posavac Hound

Hounds from the Sava Valley (Posavina, south-east of Zagreb) were sold as boskini in Croatia in the 1800s.

Roderick W. Moore

He later served as Political-Economic Counselor at the American Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia (1996–1999) and was Senior Political Adviser at the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996).

Shaban Gashi

Born in Prizren, Shaban Gashi began as a photographer at the age of seven and after finishing high school he enrolled at the film academy in Zagreb.

Slow Days

Set in the Croatian capital Zagreb and its satellite town, Velika Gorica, it follows the lives of over twenty individuals.

Susedgrad

Susedgrad is the name for the far western part of Zagreb, Croatia.

The Humpers

Despite being based out of Long Beach, California, they recorded their first EP, My Machine, for a Yugoslav Zagreb based independent label, Zdenko Franjić's Slušaj Najglasnije (Listen Loudest).

The Master Scratch Band

The Degout EP was released by the Jugoton label, from Zagreb (in SR Croatia, Yugoslavia (today independent Croatia)).

Tkalčićeva Street

In 1908, Viktor Kovačić also displayed some of his ideas about Ulica Potok in his studies of Gornji Grad, Kaptol and other city neighborhoods.

Tomislav Zanoški

Tomislav "Tom" Zanoški (born March 3, 1984 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian born Canadian professional ice hockey Forward currently playing for EC KAC of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).

Trimo Urban Crash

The 2007 Trimo Urban Crash competition was open to all students of the schools of architecture in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade.

Vanja Drach

Between 1957 up to his retirement in 1998, he acted in the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, apart from the period 1975–81 when he was member of the troupe Teatar u gostima.

Vladimir Matijević

Vladimir Matijevic (1854-1929) was the founder of the Serbian Business Association Privrednik, the biggest Serbian humanitarian society, in 1897 in Zagreb,Serbian bank and Union of agricultural cooperatives.

Walcker Orgelbau

Known for distinguished installations and low output, the company built the organ in the Boston Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, Zagreb Cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia, and Riga Cathedral in Riga, Latvia.

Wang Liqin

He has since won two more World Championships – 48th WTTC 2005 in Shanghai, China and 49th WTTC 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia

SKOJ was founded in Zagreb on October 10, 1919 as a political organization of revolutionary youth the youth which followed the policy of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (communist).

Yugoslav Air Force

In June 1947 the first VSJ flying school at Borongaj (near Zagreb) started training pupils.

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.

Marina Škrabalo's research says: "In February/March 1994, ZaMir servers were installed in Ljubljana and besieged Sarajevo, followed by the set up of the Priština server ZANA, administered by the independent newspaper Koha in October 1994. The network was considerably improved in spring 1995, when the Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade servers were enlarged and a new server, with direct international telephone access was installed in Tuzla".


2009 Croatian Figure Skating Championships

The competition took place between 20 December and 21 December, 2008 in Zagreb.

Antisemitic Exhibition in Zagreb

According to Zagreb newspaper Nova Hrvatska report, various state officials attended the opening, including NDH interior minister Andrija Artuković and representatives of the German, Italian and Slovak embassies in Zagreb, as well as the then mayor of Zagreb Ivan Werner.

Archbishop Stepinac High School

It was founded in 1948 and named for Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who was archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia) at the time and unfairly convicted by communists as Nazi collaborator.

Danko Grlić

He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb.

Dejan Bogdanović

Since then he has been soloist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, in his home country and abroad (symphony orchestras of Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Kuhmo, Moscow and many others).

Dušan Zinaja

Zinaja died on 26 September 1948 in a traffic accident near the village of Poklek on Mt. Žumberak, near Zagreb, Croatia (at the time FPR Yugoslavia).

Đuro Bago

In 2002, He became the assistant coach for the famous Croatian coach Miroslav Blažević when Blažević became head coach of first professional team of Dinamo Zagreb.

Franjo Kuharić

He was ordained a priest on 15 July 1945 in Zagreb, by Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, archbishop of Zagreb.

Genomic phylostratigraphy

Phylostratigraphy, a novel statistical method, was developed by Tomislav Domazet-Lošo at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.

Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka

Brestanica is a small town located approximately 60 km from Zagreb, Croatia, and 100 km from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Hrvatski Top Model

Croatian top-model Tatjana Jurić fills the host role of Tyra Banks in the original series as the head of the search as well as a mentor for the 16 girls that have been chosen to live in a house together in Zagreb.

HŠK Zemun

In the third stage, they reached the quarterfinals, losing to strong Zagreb squad HAŠK.

Jarun

Development increased in 1987 due to the building of the sports and leisure center (because of the Universiade in Zagreb the same year).

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

In 1690, Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić, the Bishop of Zagreb, bought his library, along with some 7300 graphics, and moved it to Slavonia, where the collection became part of the library of the Zagreb Archbishopric, now part of the Croatian State Archives.

LGBT rights in Croatia

The campaign included city light billboards in four cities (Zagreb, Split, Pula, and Osijek), handing out leaflets to citizens in those four cities, and distribution of leaflets to police stations throughout the country.

Lučko

Lučko is a suburban neighborhood situated on the edge of the Novi Zagreb - zapad district of Zagreb, Croatia, located south of the Sava and southwest of the city center, near the Lučko interchange that connects the Zagreb-Karlovac motorway, the Zagreb bypass and the old road to Karlovac.

Luka Kovač

He speaks of having a joyful, though financially modest, childhood, with at least one brother, and he keeps in contact with his father, who is an amateur painter and engineer working in Croatian Railways in Zagreb.

Manfred of Pécs

When the first record was made of him in 1277, Manfred was a canon at the cathedral chapter in Zagreb and dean of Gercse.

Matko Vekić

From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer of drawing and painting at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, and from 1999 to 2003 he was a teaching assistant (later assistant professor) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar.

Menci Clement Crnčić

After graduating, Crnčić taught painting in the Arts and Crafts School in Zagreb, but in 1894 Izidor Kršnjavi, the Director of the Institute for Education and Theology recognized Crnčić's talent for drawing.

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Nema laži, nema prevare – Uživo, Zagreb `85

Originally a bootleg recording of Riblja Čorba concert held in Zagreb on February 2, 1985, Nema laži, nema prevare - Zagreb uživo `85 was released as a live album in 1995 by Slovenian record label Biveco.

Nenad Puhovski

In 2004 Puhovski founded and became the director of ZagrebDox, an annual international documentary festival in Zagreb which regularly attracts an audience of around 25,000 viewers.

Pavao Mašić

Pavao Mašić graduated at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in several studies: the harpsichord in the class of Višnja Mažuran, the organ in the class of Mario Penzar, and the studies of music theory.

Pelinkovac

The most popular brands in Croatia are the Pelinkovac made by Dalmacijavino (Split, Croatia), Maraska Pelinkovac made by Maraska Distillery (Zadar, Croatia), "Rovinjski Pelinkovac", made by Darna Distillery (Rovinj, Croatia) and the Badel Pelinkovac, made by the Badel Distillery (Zagreb, Croatia).

Petra Banović

Petra Banović (born November 10, 1979 in Zagreb) is a freestyle and medley swimmer from Croatia, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in Sydney 2000.

Porges

Nenad Porges (born 1946, Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)), Croatian politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship

Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina

RTVBiH (and consequently BHRT) grew out of RTV Sarajevo in 1992, one of eight principal broadcasting centers of former Yugoslavia, others being RTV Ljubljana, RTV Zagreb, RTV Beograd, RTV Novi Sad, RTV Titograd, RTV Pristina, and RTV Skopje.

Sinisa Malesevic

Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague)- where he worked with late Ernest Gellner -, and at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Slobodan Prosperov Novak

He graduated comparative literature in 1973 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, receiving his M.A. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1978.

Todd Torres

Torres also competed for the United States, winning a bronze medal at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).

Zdravko Lorković

Zdravko Lorković (3 January 1900, Zagreb – 11 November 1998, Zagreb) was a Croatian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.