Krapina

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Krapina

Krapina is a town in northern Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
and the administrative centre of Krapina-Zagorje county

Krapina-Zagorje County

Krapina-Zagorje county is a county in northern Croatia. It encompasses most of the historic region called Hrvatsko Zagorje .The Krapina-Zagorje county is a candidate for being the most idyllic county in Croatia: the many villages and small towns spread out across the hillsides are perfect for agriculture and summer houses....
with a population of 4,647 (2001) and a total municipality population of 12,950 (2001).

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**Krapina**

County County A county is a land area of Local government government within a larger state. A county may have city and towns within its area....	Krapina-Zagorje Krapina-Zagorje County Krapina-Zagorje county is a county in northern Croatia. It encompasses most of the historic region called Hrvatsko Zagorje .The Krapina-Zagorje county is a candidate for being the most idyllic county in Croatia: the many villages and small towns spread out across the hillsides are perfect for agriculture and summer houses....
Location
Mayor	Josip Horvat (HDZ)
Surface Surface In mathematics, specifically in topology, a surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The most familiar examples are those that arise as the boundaries of solid objects in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space E3.... (km²)	47.53
Population Population File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings.... (2001)	12,950 (municipality)
Time zone Time zone A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time .... (UTC)	UTC+1 Central European Time Central European Time Central European Time is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in most European and some North African countries....

Krapina is a town in northern Croatia

Croatia

Krapina-Zagorje County

Zagorje

Zagorje can refer to:*Hrvatsko Zagorje, a region in northern Croatia*Zagorje ob Savi, a town and a municipality in Slovenia*Krapina-Zagorje county, in Croatia...
region of Croatia, approximately 55 km away from both Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....
and Varaždin.

In 1899, on a hill called Hušnjak near modern Krapina, the archaeologist and paleontologist Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger

Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger

Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist and archeologist. He was born on October 25, 1856 in Zagreb, where he died on December 24, 1936....
found over eight hundred fossil remains belonging to Neanderthals. Moreover, these fossil remains are said to exhibit traces of cannibalism

Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating other humans. The ritualistic eating of human flesh is also known as anthropophagy, from Greek: ?????p??, anthropos, "human being"; and fa?e??, phagein, "to eat"....
and/or mortuary defleshing. At the site where the Neanderthals were discovered, there is now a park with many statues. These statues include a bear, moose, and a beaver.

Krapina has been known since 1193. It has always been a favourite site for castles and country houses of Croatian and Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
rulers.

Today it is a reasonably developed town, boasting its festival kajkavskih popevki sung in the local Kajkavian dialect

Kajkavian dialect

Croatian Kajkavian dialect is one of the three main dialects of the Croatian language. The name of the dialect, like those of its correspondents, ?tokavian and Cakavian, is named after the interrogative pronoun kaj ....
of the Croatian language

Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
.

There is also a nearby municipality of Krapinske Toplice

Krapinske Toplice

Krapinske Toplice is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje county in Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 5,744 inhabitants in the area, absolute majority which are Croats....
(the spa

Spa town

A spa town, or simply spa, is a town frequented mainly for health reasons, to "take the waters". The word comes from the Belgium town Spa, Belgium....
s of Krapina).

Krapina is also the home of Ljudevit Gaj

Ljudevit Gaj

Ljudevit Gaj was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was the central person of the Croatian national reformation or the Illyrian Movement....
. Ljudevit Gaj was a revolutionary of Krapina, and in 1850 he made a new version of the Croatian grammar. His home is now a museum where visitors can learn about his life and mission.

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