Ludbreg is a town in

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, located halfway between

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Koprivnica Koprivnica () is a city in Northern Croatia, located 70 kilometers northeast of Zagreb. It is the capital and the largest city of the Koprivnica-Križevci county. In 2011, the city's administrative area of 90.94 km2 had a total po ...

near the river

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. It has 3,603 inhabitants, and a total of 8,478 in the entire municipality (census 2011).

History

For centuries Ludbreg has been a popular place of

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. In 1320 the city was mentioned for the first time as ''Castrum Ludbreg'', when owned by Hungarian noble

Nicholas Ludbregi Nicholas Ludbregi ( hu, Ludbregi Miklós; 1290s – 1357) was a Hungarian noble, landowner and soldier in Slavonia in the first half of the 14th century. Family background Nicholas was born into the Zala branch of the ''gens'' Péc in the 1290s ...

. The name of the town comes probably from a crusader named ''Lobring'', who founded the settlement. The renovated ''Castle of Batthyány'' is home to a well-known restoration workshop. Ludbreg is also a region of vineyard cultivation (especially Riesling and Graševina). The town became famous after the eucharistic miracle, that happened in the castle chapel in 1411 and was investigated and confirmed by

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in 1513. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Ludbreg was a district capital in the Varaždin County of the

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. On 24 April

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, the town saw a protest that was one of the earliest open acts of resistance against the 6 January Dictatorship

Municipality

The following settlements comprise the Ludberg municipality: * Apatija, population 250 *

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, population 413 * Čukovec, population 322 * Globočec Ludbreški, population 491 * Hrastovsko, population 760 * Kućan Ludbreški, population 186 * Ludbreg, population 3,603 * Segovina, population 37 * Selnik, population 844 * Sigetec Ludbreški, population 667 * Slokovec, population 257 * Vinogradi Ludbreški, population 648

Population

Notable people

* Rudolf Fizir (1891–1960), airplane constructor * Mladen Kerstner (1928–1991), writer * Dubravka Krušelj Jurković (born 1972), opera singer * Tomislav Mužek (born 1976), opera singer * Vladimir Filipović (1906–1984), philosopherZenko, Franjo: Novija hrvatska filozofija, Zagreb, 1995. * Sara Kolak (born 1995), javelin thrower * (born 1951)

References

External links

Ludbreg official site
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