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Six-term mayor Milan Bandić was seeking re-election but died during the pre-election campaign period, after 17 years and 165 days in office.. The longest-serving and six-time elected mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić, died from a heart attack on 28 February 2021, less than three months before the election.
Zagreb (/ ˈ z ɑː ɡ r ɛ b / ZAH-greb [7] Croatian: ⓘ [a]) [9] is the capital and largest city of Croatia. [10] It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain.
National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) (Croatian: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu, NSK; formerly Nacionalna i sveučilišna biblioteka u Zagrebu, NSB) is the national library of Croatia and central library of the University of Zagreb. The Library was established in 1607. [1]
The Act of Founding was passed by the Parliament in 1874, and was ratified by the Emperor on January 5, 1874. On October 19, 1874, the Royal University of Franz Joseph I was officially opened. The University is composed of 29 faculties, 3 art academies and 1 university center with more than 70,000 students.
Brcko in Zagreb (Brcko u Zagrebu) is a 1917 Croatian short comedy film directed by Arsen Maas.. The film, created by a band of Zagreb-based theatrical actors and produced by Croatia Film k.d., features a simple plot [4] in which Brcko, the titular protagonist, comes from a province to the big city.
There are more prominent Serbs who participated in the social life of the city and among them may be enumerated the following. In 1834 Hristifor Stanković, president of the Zagreb Orthodox Church municipality, built the first theater in Gradec. [3]
On 5 December 1918, four days after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the National Guards (an armed force of the National Council of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs) and Sokol volunteers suppressed a protest and engaged in an armed clash against the soldiers of the 25th Regiment of the Royal Croatian Home Guard and the 53rd Regiment of the former Austro ...
At approximately 6:24 AM CET on the morning of 22 March 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 MW, 5.5 ML, hit Zagreb, Croatia, with an epicenter 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the city centre. The cathedral was damaged, in which the tip of its southern spire broke off and crashed onto the roof of the adjacent Archbishop's Palace. [ 24 ]