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Zagreb

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(zä'grĕb), Ger. Agram , Hung. Zágráb , city (2011 pop. 790,017), capital and largest city of Croatia , on the Sava River. Zagreb is Croatia's largest industrial, manufacturing, and financial center and, prior to Yugoslavia's disintegration in the early 1990s, was also Yugoslavia's largest. It has industries that produce machinery, machine tools, electrical and metal products, and chemicals. It is also the cultural center of Croatia, with an Academy of Arts and Sciences (founded 1861), a university (founded 1669), an institute of nuclear physics, an observatory, and several fine museums and art galleries. Zagreb is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop, an Orthodox Eastern archbishop, a Protestant bishop, and a grand rabbi. The ancient Roman town of Andautonia was southeast of the modern city, which developed from 2 nuclei: Gradec and Kaptol. It was made an episcopal see of the Western church in 1093. In 1242, the year of a Mongol invasion, Gradec became a free royal city and later in…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Capital of Croatia, on the River Sava. Founded in the 11th century, it became capital of the Hungarian province of Croatia and Slavonia during the 14th century. The city was an important centre of the 19th-century Croatian nationalist movement. In 1918 it was the meeting place of the Croatian Diet…
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Full text Article Zagreb

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(zä'grĕb), Ger. Agram , Hung. Zágráb , city (2011 pop. 790,017), capital and largest city of Croatia , on the Sava River. Zagreb is Croatia's largest industrial, manufacturing, and financial center and, prior to Yugoslavia's disintegration in the early 1990s, was also Yugoslavia's largest. It has…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City (pop., 2001: 691,724), capital of Croatia . It was first mentioned in 1093, when a Roman Catholic bishopric was established there. In medieval times the area contained a civil and an ecclesiastical settlement. Rivals until the 19th century, they were joined when a spate of new building occurred…
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Croatian director. After gaining his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Vienna, Gavella became a theatre critic for a German newspaper in Zagreb. In 1914, he directed his first play, Schiller’s Bride of Messina , at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and was recruited by the company in…
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Croatian actress. After taking acting courses, first with a film company, then at Actors’ School, Kraljeva was engaged by the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and performed there until 1978; her last appearance was as Queen Margaret in Richard III . Her gentle looks, combined with a soft tender…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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Croatian actor. While working as a teacher in a village near Zagreb, Fijan took private courses in acting and in 1873 started to act in the Croatian National Theatre, first as a volunteer, and, from 1878 to his death, as a professional actor. A man of classical beauty and the embodiment of a…
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Full text Article Bašić, Relja (b. Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 14 February 1930).

From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
Croatian actor, director, and theatre manager. Relja Bašić completed his study of acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1957. He joined the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where he was engaged until 1967, and was noted for his grotesque performance of Pompey in Measure for Measure and…
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He studied violin with Huml at the Zagreb Academy of Music and pursued composition largely on his own. In 1945 he began teaching composition at the Zagreb Academy of Music. He also served as conductor of the Zagreb Radio Chamber Orchestra. His own music was Romantic in style in its lush…
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