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KrapinaKrapina is a town in northern Croatia, center of the Krapina-Zagorje county, population 4,647 (2001), total municipality population 12,950 (2001). Krapina is located in the hilly Zagorje region of Croatia, around 55 km away from both Zagreb and Varaždin. In 1899, on a hill called Hušnjak near modern Krapina, the archaeologist and paleontologist Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger found over eight hundred fossil remains that were determined to be a 100,000 year old Neandertal man. The "modern" Krapina itself has been known since 1193. It has always been a favorite site for castles and other country houses of Croatian and Hungarian rulers. These days it's a reasonably developed little town, boasting its festival kajkavskih popevki sung in the local kajkavski dialect of Croatian. There's also a nearby municipality of Krapinske Toplice (the spas of Krapina). External links
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