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Hrašćina
Hrašćina is a municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 1,826 inhabitants in the area, absolute majority which are Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, .... It is known for its meteorite. Populated places in Krapina-Zagorje County Municipalities of Croatia {{KrapinaZagorje-geo-stub ...
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Hraschina Meteorite
Hraschina is the official name of an iron meteorite that fell in 1751 near the Hrašćina village in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia. This meteorite is important because it was the first fall of an iron meteorite viewed and reported by a significant number of witnesses, despite its low remaining total known weight. The Hraschina meteorite also proved that rocks really can "fall from the skies". History On 26 May 1751, at 18:00, a fireball was seen over Hrašćina and sounds like detonations were heard as far away as Varaždin, giving an estimate of nearly of area over which the meteorite's sound was audible. Many people taking their Sunday evening walk witnessed the event. Baltazar Adam Krčelić, a clergyman, historian, and a noted chronicler of daily events, who was spending time in the village of Biškupec, recorded the following: :"In Biškupec near Varaždin an unusual phenomenon like a small cloud was seen — although it was not a cloud — which became paler and paler, prod ...
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Krapina-Zagorje County
Krapina-Zagorje County (, hr, Krapinsko-zagorska županija) is a Counties of Croatia, county in northern Croatia, bordering Slovenia. It encompasses most of the historic region called Hrvatsko Zagorje. The area contains the excavation site of a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal man in caves near the central town of Krapina. The existence of Krapina itself has been verified since 1193, and it has been a common site for castles and other country houses of Croatian, Austrian and Hungary, Hungarian rulers. Other towns of the county are Zabok, Pregrada, Zlatar (Croatia), Zlatar, Oroslavje, Donja Stubica, Klanjec. The town of Donja Stubica, Stubica features another thermal spring, the Stubičke destination spa, spa. Also in the area are the medieval castles Veliki Tabor, Miljana, Bezanec, Bežanec, Hellenbach, Milengrad etc. The Krapina-Zagorje County borders on the Varaždin County in the northwest, Zagreb County in the southwest and southeast, and the city of Zagreb in the south. The c ...
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Meteorit Hrascina 1751
''Zenit'' (German for: ) is the sixth studio album by Austrian rapper RAF Camora, released on 1 November 2019, through Indipendenza and distributed through Groove Attack. Background Following the release of his fifth studio album '' Anthrazit'' and the subsequent re-release '' Anthrazit RR'' in 2017, the rapper announced the end of his career, after the release of ''Palmen aus Plastik 2 ''Palmen aus Plastik 2'' (German: ''Palms out of plastic 2''; abbreviated as PaP 2) is the second collaborative studio album by German rapper Bonez MC and Austrian rapper RAF Camora, released on 5 October 2018 through Vertigo Berlin and Capitol ...'' and one last solo album. In December 2018, he revealed that his last album will be titled ''Zenit''. On August 23, 2019, a trailer was uploaded, directed by Shaho Casado, revealing the release date for the album for 1 November 2019. Track listing Adapted from Apple Music. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications Refer ...
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Croatia
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Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America as well as New Zealand and later Australia, establishing a diaspora in the aftermath of World War II, with grassroots assistance from earlier communities and the Roman Catholic Church. In Croatia (the nation state), 3.9 million people identify themselves as Croats, and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they are one of the three constituent ethnic groups, predominantly living in Western Herzegovina, Central Bosnia and Bosnian Posavina. The minority in Serbia number about 70,000, mostly in Vojvodina. The ...
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Populated Places In Krapina-Zagorje County
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ...
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