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the green cradle of Croatia
Međimurje
Right between two rivers, the Mura and the Drava, there lies the lively green Međimurje. The hard-working people in the northernmost region in Croatia have shaped over the centuries the picturesque scenery into a lovely garden, a place for a comfortable life in harmony with nature.
Come and experience lush Međimurje!
If Croatia is the body, then Međimurje is its heart that beats with the power of untamed rivers. It breathes the freshness of hillsides and playful treetops. Its food comes from clean fields and gardens, its strength from apiaries. It drinks the divine nectar from its vineyards, and gets revitalized in the thermal waters that emerge from great depths onto the surface of land. It is a Croatian flower garden of unparalleled beauty, natural balance and cultivated community. A place of intimacy with heritage and acknowledgement of modern life, a lively haven of traditional continental cuisine skilfully fused with trendy charm. Međimurje. The northern gate of Croatia, which, once opened, enters your heart to be forever kept there as a fond memory of a unique ‘island’ between the two rivers.
Milestones in Međimurje
1203
the earliest known record of Međimurje - inter Muram et Dravam in the King Emeric‘s charter
1333
the forts in Štrigova and Čakovec are mentioned in King Carl Robert’s document
1473
King Matthias Corvinus sells Međimurje to Ivan Ernest Hamp
1546
Nicholas IV. Zrinski takes hold of of the fortresses Čakovec and Štrigova with the estates
1671
Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan are accused of high treason and executed, and their property is confiscated
1710
a great flood when the Drava river changed its course and bypassed Legrad, moving it to Podravina
1738
a strong earthquake hits Čakovec and its surroundings, damaging the fortress in Čakovec and the Zrinski mausoleum in Šenkovec
1791
Count Juraj Feštetić de Tolna buys the Čakovec estate
1848
– 1860 Međimurje is annexed to Croatia after the military campaign led by Ban Josip Jelačić
1860
the first railway line Kotoriba-Čakovec-Macinec is launched in Croatia
1920
the Treaty of Trianon is ratified, officially annexing Međimurje to the Croatian Kingdom
1923
Count Eugen Feštetić sells the Čakovec estate to the company Slavonija d.n.d.
1941
– 1945 military occupation of Međimurje by Hungary
1992
Međimurje receives the status of a county as a regional administration and self-government unit