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The city's population was 779,145 in 2001, and 1,088,841 with its metropolitan area ( Samobor, Velika Gorica and Zaprešic), situated on the slopes of Medvednica mountain and along the banks of the Sava river; elevation 120 m.
Its favorable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides the best valuation of connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea.
The traffic position, concentration of industry ( metal processing , electrical appliances, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals ( Pliva ), printingPrinting is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is an important part of publishing. Printing using a printing press dates back to the 15th century in Europe (invented by and leatherLeather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals. Leather was a very important clothing material, and its other uses were legion. Together with wood, leather formed the basis of much ancient technology. Leather with t industries, wood processing , paperPaper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres. The fibers used are usually natural and based upon cellulose. The most common material is wood pulp from pulpwood (largely softwood) trees such as pines, but other vegetable fiber mater etc.), scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition underlie its leading economic position. The city is relatively prosperous by eastern European standards, albeit the average incomes and prices are still lower than further in the west.
Zagreb seats central state administrative bodiesPublic administration is, broadly speaking, the implementation of policy within a state framework. A good working definition is, "taking care of the state's, and international organizations', business by civil servants within the executive branch of gover and almost all government ministries.
Central Zagreb city square, the Ban Jelacic square
While the human habitats were present at the wider city area since the Neolithic (including the well-preserved Roman town of Andautonia ), its modern name has been recorded for the first time in 11th century ( 1094), when it became a bishopric see, while it became a free city in the 13th century. The city core comprises the mediaeval parts of the town called Gradec (Gric) and Kaptol . The construction of the railway embankment ( 1860) enabled the old suburbs, which did not represent an urban whole up to then, to merge gradually into Donji Grad , characterized by a regular block pattern. During the Austro-Hungarian era Zagreb was called by its German name Agram.
Working-class quarters emerged between the railway and the Sava and residential quarters on the hills of the southern slopes of Medvednica between the two World Wars.
The blocks between the railway and the Sava were built after the Second World War followed from the mid- 1950s by new residential areas south of the Sava river, the so-called Novi Zagreb (New Zagreb). The city also expanded towards the west and the east and "consumed" what were once mere villages at Dubrava, Podsused , Jarun etc.
The cargo railway hub and the international airport Pleso were built south of the Sava river. The biggest industrial zone ( Žitnjak ) in the southeast represents an extension of the industrial zones on the eastern outskirts of the city, between the Sava and the Prigorje region.
Urbanized lines of settlements connect Zagreb with the centers in its surroundings: Sesvete , Zaprešic, Samobor, Dugo Selo and Velika Gorica. Sesvete is the closest one to become a part of the conurbation and is in fact already included in the City of Zagreb rather than the Zagreb county (which excludes the city).