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General facts about Osijek:

Location: Eastern Croatia, on the right bank of the river Drava
Population (1991.): 165,253
Total surface area: 659 km²
Population density: 251 inhabitants/km²
Number ot settlements in the county district: 36

Short history of the city:

     Osijek, the biggest and the capital city in Slavonia, is situated on the right bank of the river of Drava, 22 km from the mouth of the river of Danube. The right bank is a bit higher and because of that it provides a good protection from floods, a suitable crossing over the river of Drava. In the area of today's city there were several archaeological sites from different pre-historic periods and cultures from earlier Stone Age, over Copper and Bronze to the Iron Age.

                                 

      Although the area of the city of Osijek was settled even in the pre-historic period, the first urban settlement was erected by the Romans. There are many archaeological findings and the items of a great natural, historic and artistic value-all of them are kept in Osijek Museum that was founded in the year 1877.
     The Romans conquered this part of the Pannonian plain, in the area of today's Down Town and formed the military camp and a civilian settlement Mursa. More intensive rise of the city was connected with the name of the Emperor Hadrian, who gave the status of the colony to Mursa in the year 133.
     Osijek from the Middle Ages was developed in western side of today's Tvrđa (Fortress). The oldest written documents were mentioned for the first time in the year 1196, when the King Emerik confirmed the rights to Cisterian abbey Cikador to collect fare for trade and transport by ship.
     Osijek was liberated from the Turks on 29 September, 1687. After the liberation the weakest defence points were strengthened and afterwards the complete urban structure was changed. The inhabitants of the part under a fortified place were moved about a kilometre and a half upstream of the Fortress because of the construction of new fortifications.

source: www.osijek.hr     

Map of Osijek:

1. Josip Juraj Strossmayer university of Osijek
2. City center
A) Hotel "Mursa"
B) Hotel "Waldinger"
C) Hotel "Central"
D) Hotel "Relax"

General facts about Croatia:

Location: Geographically situated on the cross-roads between Central Europe and the Mediterranean.
Official name: Republic of Croatia
Official language: Croatian
Alphabet: Latin
Currency: Kuna (100 lipa)
Population (1991.): 4,784,000
Total state area: 89,810 km2
Capital: Zagreb (nearly 1 million inhabitants)
Political system: parlamentary multiparty Republic

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