Hrašćina is a municipality in the
Krapina-Zagorje County
Krapina-Zagorje County (, ) is a 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 ...
in
Croatia
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In the 2011 census, there were 1,617 inhabitants in the area, in the following
settlements:
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Domovec, population 98
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Donji Kraljevec, population 135
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Gornjaki, population 135
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Gornji Kraljevec, population 353
* Hrašćina, population 104
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Husinec, population 108
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Jarek Habekov
Jarek is a Slavic male given name. It can be a nickname for the Polish name Jarosław. Notable people with this name include:
* Jarek Broussard, American American football player
* Jarek Dymek (born 1971), Polish strongman competitor
* Jarek ...
, population 171
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Maretić, population 152
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Trgovišće, population 69
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Vrbovo, population 292
In the same census, over 99% of the population were
Croats
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Hrašćina is known for the
Hraschina meteorite
Hraschina is the official name of an iron meteorite that fell in 1751 near the village of Hrašćina in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia. This meteorite is important because it was the first meteorite fall, fall of an iron meteorite viewed and reported ...
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References
Populated places in Krapina-Zagorje County
Municipalities of Croatia
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