Sigečica is a neighbourhood in the southeast of

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

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, within the

Trnje Trnje () is a district in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, the district had 42,282 residents. It is located in the central part of the city, south of Donji grad across the railway ( Zagreb Main Station), east of Trešn ...

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.

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Neighbourhoods of Zagreb {{ZagrebCity-geo-stub