Ozalj

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Town of Ozalj
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image_sealOzalj (grb).gif
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map_captionMap of Ozalj municipality within Karlovac County
pushpin_mapCroatia
pushpin_map_captionLocation of Ozalj within Croatia
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameCroatia
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_name1Central Croatia (Pokuplje)
subdivision_type2County
subdivision_name2Karlovac County
leader_partyIndependent
leader_titleMayor
leader_nameGordana Lipšinić
area_footnotes
area_total_km2179.4
area_urban_km25.7
population_footnotes
population_as_of2021
population_total5837
population_density_km2auto
population_urban1053
population_density_urban_km2auto
timezoneCentral European Time
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postal_code_typePostal code
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website
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Ozalj is a town in central Croatia, located north of Karlovac and southwest of Jastrebarsko, on the Kupa River. It is close to Žumberak in the north and the border with Slovenia in the northwest, with Metlika being the closest Slovenian town.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Ozalj_Castle_Aerial_view.jpg" caption="[[Ozalj Castle"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Ozalj-Kirche-_Sv-Vid-Heiligen_Veits.JPG" caption="St.Vitus Church"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/20110425_S_393_BosiljOzaljOgModr_11541_PhotosCROOzalj_019_sl.jpg" caption="Grave of [[Slava Raškaj"] ::

The town was built on a cliff over the Kupa river and the first mention of it dates from 1244, as a free royal town. The Frankopan family owned it since 1398, then it passed to the Zrinski family in 1550, and it stayed theirs until 1671. The city commemorates 30 April as its day, in memory of the event in 1671 when Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan were executed.

The patron saint of the town is St. Vitus, whose feast is celebrated on 15 June.

Munjara

Munjara is the old hydroelectric plant. This plant has three 3.5 megawatt generators and was built between 1907 and 1908.

Demographics

The town of Ozalj itself has a population of 1,053, with a total of 5,837 people in the municipality. 97.36% of the population are Croats (census 2021).

The administrative area of the Town consists of 96 smaller settlements, the full list of which is (population 2021):

Governance

Representatives of the Ozalj kotar at the Croatian Parliament:

Judiciary

Karlovac was once the seat of the kotar court for an 1870 population of 53,148. In 1875, the kotar court of Karlovac was responsible for the općine: Karlovac city, Banija, Rečica, Draganić, Ozalj, Novigrad, Ribnik, Bosiljevo and Severin.

Notable people

Notes

References

References

  1. {{Cite Q. Q119585703
  2. {{Croatian Census 2021. S
  3. {{Cite Q. Q125763583
  4. Krapf, Franz Philipp. 1844. ''Handbuch zur Zoll- und Staats-Monopols-Ordnung'', vol. 2. Innsbruch: Verlag der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung, p. 242.
  5. ''Lopašić, Radoslav. 1894. Urbaria lingua croatica conscripta. Hrvatski urbari''. Zagreb: U knjižari Jugosl. akademije, p. 308.
  6. {{Croatian Census 2011. E. 04
  7. {{Croatian Census 2011. S. 04. 3158
  8. Hrvatski institut za povijest. (2021). "Abecedarij saborskih zastupnika, 1848. – 1918.".
  9. Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured. (1877). "Pregled političkoga i sudbenoga razdieljenja kraljevinah Hrvatske i Slavonije i uredjenja upravnih obćinah. Na temelju naredbe kr. hrv.-slav.-dalm. zem. vlade od 5. veljače 1875. broj 221 pr. i provedenoga zatim zaokruženja upravnih obćinah". Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada, 🖶 Tiskara "Narodnih novinah".

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