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}}Template:Main other Karlovac ({{#invoke:IPA|main}})<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a city in central Croatia. In the 2021 census, its population was 49,377.<ref name="Census 2021"/>

Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located Template:Convert southwest of Zagreb and Template:Convert northeast of Rijeka, and is connected to them via the A1 highway and the M202 railway.

NameEdit

The city was named after its founder, Charles II, Archduke of Austria. The German name Karlstadt<ref> Template:Cite EB1911</ref> or Carlstadt ("Charlestown") has the equivalence in various languages: in Hungarian it is known as Károlyváros, in Italian as Carlovizza, in Latin as Carolostadium, and in Kajkavian dialect and Slovene as Karlovec.

HistoryEdit

The Austrians built Karlovac from scratch in 1579 in order to strengthen their southern defences against Ottoman encroachments. The establishment of a new city-fortress was a part of the deal between the Protestant nobility of Inner Austria and the archduke Charles II of Austria. In exchange for their religious freedom the nobility agreed to finance the building of a new fortress against the Ottoman Empire. It was founded as a six-pointed star fortress built on the Zrinski estate near the old town of Dubovac at the confluence of the Kupa and Korana rivers. As the city later expanded, the urban area reached as far as the Mrežnica and Dobra rivers. The star shape can still be seen around the town. It was originally known as Karlstadt ("Charles's Town" in German), after the ruling family, upon whose orders construction began on 13 July 1579.Template:Sfn The architect of the city was Matija Gambon,Template:Sfn whilst work on the new fortress was supervised by George Khevenhüller. It was intentionally built on terrain exposed to flooding and disease from unhealthy water, with the intent to hamper the Turkish advance.<ref>Treasures of Yugoslavia, published by Yugoslaviapublic, Beograd, available in English, German and Serbo-Croatian, 664 pages, 1980</ref>

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Seal of the free and regal town of Karlovac
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The city of Karlovac emerged around a star-shaped Renaissance fortress built against the Ottomans

The fortress itself was largely complete by September 1580, while moats and ramparts were finished later, between 1582 and 1589.Template:Sfn The first church (of the Holy Trinity) was built in the central square in 1580, but all of the city buildings burned down in the fire of 1594.Template:Sfn By 1610, moats and ramparts were repaired, and houses were rebuilt.Template:Sfn

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Panorama of Karlovac by train, painting by Jakov Šašel

During the fortification of Karlovac in 1588, its supply chain consisted of Dubovac, Novigrad, Bosiljevo and Ribnik on the one hand, and Ozalj on the other owing the same as the previous four.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp Each owed 6 carts of timber,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp and although there were complaints about the conduct of the soldiers stationed in Karlovac, the order was complied with.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp

As a military outpost of the Habsburg monarchy, Karlovac was one of the first headquarters of the general command of the Military Frontier. It was the site of the trial and execution of the best-known leader of the rebel Uskoks from the coastal fort of Senj, Ivan Vlatković. He was executed in Karlovac on 3 July 1612 as an example to his troops who were creating difficulties for the Habsburgs by their piracy against Venetian shipping on the Adriatic Sea, and by marauding raids into the Ottoman hinterland. In 1615 their piracy went so far as creating an open war between Venice and Austria. When the Treaty of Paris (ratified in Madrid) was concluded in 1617, bringing an end to the war between Venice and the Habsburgs, under the terms of the treaty the Uskok families were forcibly removed from Senj and disbanded into the hinterland, most notably in the Žumberak hills north of Karlovac.

The forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Karlovac seven times, the last time in 1672,Template:Sfn but failed to occupy it. The plague epidemic of 1773 also afflicted the city, killing almost half the population of the time.Template:Citation needed

Meanwhile, the fort was becoming too crowded for the city's expanding population and the Military Frontier government could not allow for its further growth. On 6 December 1693 the city received some limited self-government.

After the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699) and the Ottomans withdrawal, Karlstadt was of less military significance. By the end of the 18th century, the town was a major marketplace for wheat, corn, salt, timber and tobacco, and the source of supply for the Austrian army in Austro-Turkish Wars.Template:Sfn

Queen Maria Theresa, after long insistence from the Croatian Diet, restored the towns of Karlovac and Rijeka (Fiume) to the Croatian crownland on 9 August 1776. Maria Theresa was also responsible for the founding of Gymnasium Karlovac, and later King Joseph II reaffirmed it as a free town with an official charter in 1781. This allowed the citizens to expand the city and exploit the potential of being at the crossroads of paths from the Pannonian plains to the Adriatic coast. The town blossomed in the 18th and 19th centuries with the development of roads to the seaside and waterways along the Kupa River. The construction of the Zidani Most-Zagreb-Sisak railway line in 1861, however, marked the end of the era of Karlovac as a major trade and transport center.Template:Sfn

19th centuryEdit

The city 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. The kotar court was subordinate to the royal court at Zagreb.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Karlovac was a district capital in the Zagreb County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Homeland war Museum -Turanj Autor Denis Stosić

In the late 19th century, a Matica hrvatska branch opened in Karlovac, with 214 members in 1891.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

20th centuryEdit

When the German and Italian Zones of Influence were revised on 24 June 1942, Karlovac was the only city within Template:Ill in which the Italians were allowed to leave troops, and these were alongside Croatian and German troops.Template:Sfn

In 1990, City Council proclaimed Saint Joseph as city's patron saint.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Karlovac suffered damage during the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995). The southern sections of the city found themselves close to the front lines between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbian Krajina, with shelling devastating the neighborhoods of Turanj, Kamensko, as well as parts of Mekušje, Mala Švarča and Logorište. The city center, the city hall, and numerous other buildings also suffered damage. It was also the site of the Korana bridge killings.

The Karlovac City Museum has transformed the old Austrian military barracks of Turanj into a museum exhibition dedicated to the military history of Karlovac and in particular, through the exhibited weapons, of the Croatian War of Independence.

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Collection of tanks at the Karlovac museum in Turanj
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Mayor's chain of honor

Until the early 2000s, Karlovac's main industry consisted of brewing the beer "Karlovačko", produced by Karlovačka pivovara. By 2007, the rapidly growing firearms manufacturer HS Produkt had become the city's largest private employer.<ref name="Globus"/> HS Produkt is arguably best known as the designer and manufacturer of the HS2000 pistol, sold in the United States as the Springfield Armory XD.<ref name="Globus"> Template:Cite journal </ref>

On 22 October 2016 Croatia's first freshwater aquarium, and the biggest in that part of Europe, named Aquatika was opened in Karlovac.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DescriptionEdit

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Dubovac Castle
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One of the city's parks

Croatians know Karlovac as grad parkova (the city of parks) and grad na četiri rijeke (the town on four rivers) for its numerous green areas and four rivers, of which Mrežnica, Korana, and Kupa flow through built-up areas, and Dobra is a few kilometers outside the city centre. A documentary film made by Dušan Vukotić in 1979 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the city plays much on that theme, and shows pictures of happy bathers on the Korana's Fogina beach (Foginovo kupalište) in the city centre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

One of the rarer trees found in the parks is the Ginkgo biloba, which local primary school children are taken out to see as part of their classes on nature and society. Most of the parks are planted in the former trenches dug around the old military fort that were once filled with water as an added layer of protection from the marauding Ottoman armies. One part of the city centre maintains the name of Šanac ('trench') after the old trenches which preserve the old hexagonal form of the historic centre.

ClimateEdit

Since records began in 1949, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station at an elevation of Template:Convert was Template:Convert, on 5 July 1950.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The coldest temperature was Template:Convert, on 16 February 1956.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DemographicsEdit

Template:Historical populationsAccording to the 2011 census, Karlovac municipality had a total of 55,705 inhabitants. 49,140 of its citizens were Croats (88.21%), 4,460 were Serbs (8.01%), 250 were Bosniaks (0.45%), 237 were Albanians (0.43%), 72 were ethnic Macedonians (0.13%), 49 were Montenegrins (0.09%), and the rest were other ethnicities.<ref>Template:Croatian Census 2011</ref>

Population by religion in 2011 was following: 45,876 Roman Catholics (82.36%), 3,866 Orthodox Christians (6.94%), 2,806 Atheists (5.04%), 705 Muslims (1.27%), 488 Agnostics (0.88%), and others.<ref name=Karlovac_ethnic>Template:Croatian Census 2011</ref>

Much of the population of Karlovac has changed since the beginning of the 1991–95 Croatian War of Independence, with numerous families of Croatian Serbs fleeing and being replaced by people who were themselves displaced from parts of Croatia that were held by rebel Serbs during the war (such as from the town of Slunj), as well as by families of Bosnian Croats who started arriving during the war. The migration outflow was mostly towards Serbia, the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to countries of Western Europe, North America and Australia.

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SettlementsEdit

The list of settlements included in the administrative area of the city of Karlovac includes:<ref name="census2011">Template:Croatian Census 2011</ref>

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Karlovac municipality within Karlovac County

Administrative divisionEdit

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EconomyEdit

The first savings bank in Karlovac opened in 1872.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp

CultureEdit

Karlovac Music School, one of the oldest educational music institutions from this part of Europe (established on 1 December 1804), is the home of Karlovac Piano Festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Karlovac Piano Festival (founded in 2013) is typically held in mid-summer, and consists of master classes with renowned piano pedagogues as well as Karlovac International Piano Competition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Music school also hosts International guitar school, while in Karlovac theatre Zorin dom the "Croatia Flute Academy", a Leading Flute Masterclass in Europe has been traditionally held since 2014, so during summer months Karlovac is center of young artists of Europe. In the 20th century, Karlovac was a breeding ground for young rock bands, most notably Elektroni in the 1960s and Nužni Izlaz, Prije svega disciplina, Duhovna pastva and Lorelei in the 1970s and the 1980s. The city of Karlovac has memorial-sites dedicated to Croatian veterans of the nation's Homeland War.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and opened the Homeland War Museum in Turanj in 2019.

SportEdit

The local chapter of the HPS is HPD "Martinšćak", which had 99 members in 1936 under the Zlatko Satler presidency.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Membership fell to 91 in 1937.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>Template:Rp Membership rose to 97 in 1938.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>Template:Rp

Twin towns – sister citiesEdit

Template:See also Karlovac is twinned with:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

GalleryEdit

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    Theatre ("Zorin dom") in Karlovac

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    Franciscan Trinity Church (crkva Svetog trojstva) and Monastery, in the centre of Karlovac

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    Reconstructed Serbian Orthodox Karlovac Cathedral in the city centre.

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    Karlovac Gymnasium

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    Pontoon bridge on the river Korana

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    Examples of architecture in Karlovac city centre

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    Music school Karlovac

  • Hrvatski sokol Karlovac.jpg

    Croatian falcon ("Hrvatski sokol"), monument to the fallen soldiers from Karlovac during World War I

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    Karlovac Civil Guard- Source: Igor Čepurkovski

  • Foginovo kupalište.jpg

    Beach at the Korana river- Source: Igor Čepurkovski

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    Karlovac promenade - Source: Igor Čepurkovski

Notable peopleEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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