Zlatar is a town and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia.
History
The oldest mention of the place is as Zlatharia owned by the Bedeković family from the late 13th century. The name Zlatar is mentioned in its present form in 1566 as "possessio Zlatar" which belonged to the Aranyassy family. In 1699, the center of the church parish was transferred from Martinšćina to Zlatar, where a new parish church was built in 1762. Priest Ivan Gundak started the first elementary school in 1666 and in 1862 a new school was built.
During the rule of Ivan Mažuranić, Zlatar became a municipal and district seat, and in 1875 became the capital of the sub-county. In 1873, the first reading room was established in Zlatar, which had about seventy members. In 1907, a telephone was introduced in Zlatar. Many societies and associations were founded like a branch of the Croatian Falcon and the “Lastavica” cycling club. In the same year, two weekly papers began to be published: “Hrvatska Hrvatom” by the Party of Rights and “Zlatarski tjednik” by the Croat-Serb Coalition. In the 1935 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, representatives of the Croatian Peasant Party won in the Zlatar district. In 1937, Mirko Sviben became mayor, and among his first actions was to once again display the Croatian flag and have Cyrillic inscriptions removed from Zlatar. In the first parliamentary elections in Croatia in 1990, the HDZ won the majority of votes in Zlatar.
Demographics
In the 2021 census, there were 5,574 inhabitants in the following settlements:
Belec, population 316 Borkovec, population 205 Cetinovec, population 115 Donja Batina, population 310 Donja Selnica, population 151 Ervenik Zlatarski, population 23 Gornja Batina, population 207 Gornja Selnica, population 164 Juranšćina, population 162 Ladislavec, population 160 Martinšćina, population 340 Petruševec, population 114 Ratkovec, population 98 Repno, population 190 Šćrbinec, population 9 Vižanovec, population 111 Završje Belečko, population 56 Zlatar, population 2,825 Znož, population 18
In the 2021 census, the absolute majority of the population were Croats at 98.65%.
Administration The current mayor of Zlatar is Jasenka Auguštan-Pentek (SDP) and the Zlatar Town Council consists of 13 seats.
Groups Councilors per group SDP-Reformists HDZ-HSU Source:
Sports The local chapter of the HPS is HPD "Oštrc", which had 21 members in 1936 under the Josip Rauer presidency. In 1937, 1 major and 9 minor expeditions were organised. Membership fell to 13 in 1938.
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