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Trnje, Zagreb
Trnje () is a district in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. According to the 2011 Croatian census, 2011 census, the district had 42,282 residents. It is located in the central part of the city, south of Donji grad (Zagreb), Donji grad across the railway (Zagreb Main Station), east of Trešnjevka (Savska road), west of Stara Peščenica, Peščenica (Vjekoslav Heinzel Avenue and Marin Držić Avenue), and north of the river Sava. The Slavonska Avenue intersects Trnje. Trnje was amalgamation (politics), amalgamated into the city in 1927 by Mayors of Zagreb, Mayor Vjekoslav Heinzel, along with several other new districts, mainly for the purpose of housing people needed for Zagreb's industrial sector expansion. As a district, Trnje has an elected council. List of neighborhoods in Trnje *Cvjetno naselje *Kanal, Zagreb, Kanal *Kruge, Zagreb, Kruge *Martinovka *Trnjanska Savica, Savica *Sigečica *Vrbik *Zavrtnica References Districts of Zagreb {{ZagrebCity-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President (government Title)
President is a common title for the head of state in most republics. Depending on the country, a president could be head of government, a ceremonial figurehead, or something between these two extremes. The functions exercised by a president vary according to the form of government. In parliamentary republics, they are usually, but not always, limited to those of the head of state and are thus largely ceremonial. In presidential system, presidential and selected parliamentary (e.g. Botswana and South Africa) republics the role of the president is more prominent, encompassing the functions of the head of government. In semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republics, the president has some discretionary powers like over foreign affairs, appointment of the head of government and defence, but they are not themselves head of government. A leader of a one-party state may also hold the position of president for ceremonial purposes or to maintain an official state position. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Heinzel
Vjekoslav Heinzel (; 21 August 1871 – 1 March 1934) was the Mayor of Zagreb from 1920 to 1928. He is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city. Heinzel was born as Alois Heinzel into an entrepreneurial family in Zagreb and was sent to Graz and Stuttgart to become an architect, graduating in 1893. Licensed for standalone work as an architect in 1896, he designed numerous buildings in Zagreb. In 1906, Alois changed his name to Vjekoslav. In 1910, he became a city councillor and in 1912, he became the head of the local Chamber of Trade and Crafts. The same year he ceased his professional activities and traveled across Europe before he returned and organized the food supply of Zagreb during World War I. Heinzel was also an early automobilist, who along with Ferdinand Budicki drove the first car in Zagreb, and was one of the founders of the Croatian automobile club in 1906. He participated in many early car races, including w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigečica
Sigečica is a neighbourhood in the southeast of Zagreb, Croatia, within the Trnje district. The area of the local city council of Sigečica has a population of 6,077 (census 2021). The name Sigečica comes from old river islands in the Sava The Sava, is a river in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. From its source in Slovenia it flows through Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally reac ... river valley, and city planners decided to name a lot of the neighbourhood streets after Adriatic islands. Sigečica became urbanized and integrated into the city in the late 1920s. References Neighbourhoods of Zagreb {{ZagrebCity-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trnjanska Savica
Trnjanska Savica or just Savica is a neighbourhood of Zagreb, Croatia, located on the left (northern) bank of Sava river, west of Folnegovićevo naselje and east of Staro Trnje, in the city district of Trnje. The neighbourhood covers an area of and, according to the 2011 census, has a population of 8,449 people. Savica was built according to the socialist model of a functional neighbourhood, which is planned to fulfill all day-to-day needs of its inhabitants. Construction of high-rise apartment buildings in Savica is still ongoing, mostly in the southeastern part of the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood is served by the Jure Kaštelan Elementary School, Savica Farmer's Market, Savica Library and , and belongs to the Parish of blessed Aloysius Stepinac Aloysius Viktor Stepinac (, 8 May 1898 – 10 February 1960) was a Croat prelate of the Catholic Church. Made a cardinal in 1953, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his death, a period which included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanal, Zagreb
Kanal is a neighborhood in the city district of Trnje in Zagreb, Croatia. The main residential part of the neighbourhood is located northeast of the intersection of Vukovarska Avenue and Marin Držić Avenue and south of Radnička Road. The population is 1,384 (2021). Kanal () was named after the culvert underneath the northernmost section of the Radnička Road, the construction of which happened in the interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( .... The northeastern half of the area is an industrial zone, the location of the city's gasworks, a former asphalt factory, a former slaughterhouse etc. In more recent times, this area has seen major transformation with construction of office buildings, hotels and commercial properties. The Chromos Tower is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Zagreb
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Vjesnik
''Vjesnik'' () was a Croatian state-owned daily newspaper published in Zagreb. Originally established in 1940 as a wartime illegal publication of the Communist Party of Croatia, it later built and maintained a reputation as Croatia's newspaper of record during most of its post-war history. It ceased publication in April 2012. "Tiskara Vjesnik" and "Vjesnik d.d." were the namesakes of the ''Vjesniks printing office and publishing house, respectively. During World War II and the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia regime which controlled the country, the paper served as the primary media publication of the Yugoslav Partisans movement. The August 1941 edition of the paper featured the statement "'' Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu''" () on the cover, which was afterwards accepted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement and was often quoted in post-war Yugoslavia. Its heyday was between 1952 and 1977 when its Wednesday edition (''Vjesnik u srijedu'' or VUS) reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
