Karlovacka zupanija
Karlovac county - Karlovačka županija
The central town of Karlovac is another fort from the times of the Military Frontier. It was built in the 16th century in an interesting location: where four rivers merge (Korana, Kupa, Mrežnica and Dobra), and in an interesting shape: as a six-side star fort. Its name is Carlstadt in German, after the archduke Charles of Habsburg. King Joseph II made it a free town in 1781 and the citizens could finally utilize the potential of being at the crossroads of paths from Pannonian plains to the Adriatic coast.
The town blossomed in the 18th and the 19th century with the development of roads to the seaside and waterways along the Kupa river. The 20th century wasn't so favourably inclined, what with all the wars and migrations, but the city's steadily recovering, once again being on the crucial geostrategic point in Croatia, where the continental regions touch the Mediterranean ones.
The county itself extends towards the north to the water springs of Jamnica (the logos of which everyone must have seen on Janica Kostelić's winter caps, but which is equally award-winning on its own), and towards the south all the way down to the mountainous regions of Gorski Kotar and Lika, in particular to the Bjelolasica mountain which features the largest winter sport recreation center in the country.
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