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The Tomb of the People's Heroes (Croatian: Grobnica narodnih heroja) is located in Zagreb's central graveyard, Mirogoj. It was designed by the Croatian sculptor Đuro Kavurić and built in 1968. Buried in the tomb are not only the recipients of the Order of the People's Hero , but also some of the most notable workers' movement activists of ...
Milan Basta (1 March 1921 – 4 December 2007) was a Yugoslav World War II general, a member of the Partisan Movement and a publicist. Croatian Serb, he was born in 1921 in Kurjak, a village in Lika – a region in today's Croatia.
There is also the Central Library of Serbs in Croatia as part of Prosvjeta, Tesla Bank, Metropolitanate of Zagreb, Ljubljana and all Italy which maintains the Choral Society and Museum. Every year since 2006 there are held days of Serbian culture. Weekly Novosti and monthly magazine Identitet are published in Zagreb.
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.
The hospital was established in 1846, through the initiative of Cardinal Juraj Haulik, the Archbishop of Zagreb. It changed locations a number of times until a permanent hospital campus was completed in 1894 by the German architect Kuno Waidmann, on the site of the former Villa Socias and a neighbouring graveyard in Vinogradska Street. [2] [3]
On 7 December, Simović requested his superiors to deploy the rest of the 7th Infantry Regiment to Zagreb for security reasons. [62] Military prosecutor's and forensic experts' reports of 6 December indicated 15 killed and 13 wounded. Three of the injured died of their wounds after the report was published. [63]
Slavonska Avenue (Croatian: Slavonska avenija) is a limited-access avenue in Zagreb, Croatia.It is the longest street in Zagreb, being 18 km (11 mi) long. [1] It mostly has a 70 km/h (43 mph) speed limit, although the speed is limited to 100 km/h (62 mph) on a short section near the Ivanja Reka interchange with the Zagreb bypass.
On 3 May 1945, the NDH leadership abolished racial laws [10] [11] and intended to seek Western support in fighting Communism. On 6 May they sent a request for collaboration with the Allies, which was rejected. The Yugoslav Partisans took control of Zagreb, the capital of NDH, on 8 May. [12]