The earliest physical evidence of human presence in the area today Karlovac back to 3500th vol. pr. Christ. Some settlements which form today's city of Karlovac were formed before the foundation of Karlovac fortress: Švarča and Gaza (13th century), and Dubovac Bani (14th century).
Karlovac was built in the 16th century to defend the city from Turkish invaders as a single town in the form of a six-pointed star. Apart from Karlovac, only two cities in Europe have such plans (Palmanova in Italy and Novy Nitra, Slovakia). Start construction of Karlovac fortress is known as the birthday of the 13th July 1579. year. It was built on family property at the foot of the old town Zrinski Dubovac, and the name of Karlovac and Karlstadt was given in honor of its founder, the Austrian Archduke Charles. The Renaissance town with regular geometrical grid of streets and city blocks, the central square is the culmination of contemporary architecture and fortification art. Walls and bastions, palaces and squares, military and religious buildings. In the main square, Ban Jelacic Square today, there is the Church of the Holy Trinity, equipped with a rich baroque furniture. Beside the church is a Franciscan monastery with a collection of works of art of the monastery and church treasuries. Karlovac used to devastate the plague epidemic. When the city was liberated from that terrible disease, Mr. 1691 is set to Kužni pil as a monument of gratitude.
Reduced dependence on government and military restrictions hampered the development of trade and commerce, and citizens are asked to declare Karlovac free royal city. Emperor Joseph II issued his 1781st Charter of the privileges of free royal town with arms. 18th and 19th centuries the golden age of trade in Karlovac. Trade and manufacturing part of the city gets the opportunity of considering their position on the Buy where pretovaruje goods arrive on ships, boatmen and traders very well utilized.
In the 18th and 19th century Karlovac becomes a major trading town between the Adriatic and the Danube region, roads were built Carolina, Louisiana and Josefina, the importance of Karlovac as a trade and transportation center stone with witness marks the distance between important destinations. Karlovac theater building Zorin home built by the first Croatian singing society Zora 1892nd year. Zorin Dom organizes performances of dramatic and musical troupes from home and abroad, and his amateur acting and ballet study fills in the program.
Today's Radić Street is the main link to the old city gates of the fortress, Turkish gates, which has been preserved and guardhouse. In Karlovac, a series of elementary, middle and high schools. Karlovac high school and Nikola Tesla, Mirko Seljan, Stjepan and Antun Radić, Ivan Goran Kovacic and other celebrities.
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