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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Croatia on the Sava River in the north-central part of the country. Originally a Roman town, it came under the control of Hungary in the 1200s. During the 1800s, the city was a center of Croatian nationalism, and it became the capital of an autonomous Croatia within the kingdom of Hungary in 1868. Zagreb was a part of Yugoslavia from after World War I until 1991.
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- proper noun The
capital city ofCroatia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capital of Croatia
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ZAGREB - Two United Nations helicopters were fired on as they approached the Croatian capital Zagreb, the U.N. peace-keeping force in former Yugoslavia said.
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(ZAGREB) - Croatians voted Sunday in a presidential run-off pitting a leftwing professor against the populist mayor of Zagreb, with the winner hoping to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
EU News 2010
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ZAGREB (AFP) - Croatians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off pitting a leftwing professor against the populist Zagreb mayor, with the winner expected to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
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ZAGREB (AFP) - Croatia's government vowed yesterday to crack down on crime after a woman was shot dead in a mafia-style murder in Zagreb, the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have swept the capital.
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ZAGREB - A car bomb killed Ivo Pukanic, a prominent Croatian journalist, and a colleague in downtown Zagreb on Thursday, and the country's president called it an assassination.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Snjezana Vukic 2008
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(ZAGREB) - A British minister voiced support Friday for Croatia's bid to join the European Union and encouraged Zagreb to continue reforms needed to fight organised crime and corruption.
EUnews 2008
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ZAGREB - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Croatia's newly elected President Ivo Josipovic in Zagreb on Thursday.
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I am a freelance artist with technical education, while Tomislav graduated on Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and is working in Croatian Lexicographic Institute.
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He graduated on Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb in 1987, and got his Master of Computer Sciences degree in 1990.
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Aleksandar Žiljak was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1963.
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