Varazhdin

Varazdin is a town in Northern Croatia, eighty one km north of Zagreb. The overall populace is forty six,946, with 38,839 on 34.22 km2 of the metropolis agreement itself. It is particularly recognised for its baroque homes, song, textile, food and IT enterprise. In Hungarian the town is called Varasd, in Latin as Varasdinum, and in German as Warasdin. The name Varazdin lines its beginning in the word varos, a Hungarian loanword which means metropolis. The first written connection with Varazdin, whose historic name is Garestin, was on 20 August 1181, whilst King Bela III noted the close by thermal springs in a felony report.

Varazdin became d a unfastened royal borough in 1209 by using the Hungarian King Andrew II. The city have become the monetary and army centre of northern Croatia. Due to Ottoman raids, the town become dependent defensively across the old citadel, and purchased the form of an average medieval Wasserburg. In the early thirteenth century, the Knights Hospitaller got here to Varaždin, in which they constructed the church and a monastery.