Karlovac is a city in central Croatia with 59,395 inhabitants (2001), center of the Karlovac county. Karlovac is located on the Zagreb-Rijeka highway and railway line, 56 km south-west from Zagreb and 130 km from Rijeka.
Karlovac was founded in a fort built in the 16th century where four rivers merge (Kupa, Korana, Mrenica and Dobra) with a unique shape: as a six-side star fort. The shape of this star still exists around the town. Its name is Carlstadt in German, after the archduke Charles of Habsburg who had it built starting July 13, 1579 on the Zrinski estate near the old town of Dubovac (the castle of Dubovac still exists). The architect of the city was Matija Gambon.
The first church (of the Holy Trinity) was built in the central square in 1580, but all of the city buildings burned down in the fire of 1594. The forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Karlovac seven times, the last time in 1672, but failed to occupy it. The plague epidemic of 1773 was also a notable threat to the city, decimating almost half the population at the time.
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