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  Kumrovec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kumrovec is a picturesque village in the central part of Croatia, part of the Krapina-Zagorje county, on the Sutla river, along the Croatian-Slovenian border.
Kumrovec's claim to fame is that it was the birth place of marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), the president of former Yugoslavia.
The old part of Kumrovec comprises the Ethnological Museum with 18 village houses, displaying permanent exhibitions of artefacts related to the life and work of Zagorje peasants in the 19th/20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kumrovec   (331 words)

  
 Kumrovec, Croatia
Kumrovec is a small town, best known for being the birth place of President Jospi Broz Tito.
The main attraction in Kumrovec is a recreation of a 19th Century Croatian village.
Kumrovec is about 40km / 24mi northwest of Zagreb, and about 6km / 3.5mi from the town of Klanjec.
www.planetware.com /croatia/kumrovec-hr-cc-kum.htm   (197 words)

  
 Kumrovec (Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Kumrovec is a community in the Krapina-Zagorje County, some 30 km north-west of Zagreb, 20 km south-west of
The monument was featuring in the previous coat of arms of the community of Tuhelj, but this was changed since the community of Kumrovec sceeded from it.
The Coat of Arms of Kumrovec is: Party per bend guels and argent in spades line.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-kr-ku.html   (296 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980), better known as Marshall Tito, was the leader of Yugoslavia from the end of World War II until his death.
Tito was born in Kumrovec[?], Austria-Hungary (now in western Croatia), the seventh child in the family of Franjo and Marija Broz.
After spending some of his childhood years with his mother's father in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec and finished it in 1905.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Josip_Broz_Tito.html   (543 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) was the ruler of communist Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980.
Tito was born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia, in an area called Zagorje, which was then part of Austria-Hungary.
After spending part of his childhood years with his mother's father in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec, and failed the first grade.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Tito   (1231 words)

  
 CNN.com - Croatia remembers Tito - May 25, 2002
Crowds gathered in his hometown of Kumrovec, Croatia, to honour the man who united federal Yugoslavia after World War II.
Former anti-fascist soldiers held speeches and recited poems, while school children sang songs dedicated to the late leader on a makeshift stage in Kumrovec, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northwest of the capital, Zagreb.
Tito's speeches were heard on loudspeakers, and an actor came dressed in a white marshal's uniform commonly worn by the late leader, greeting the veterans.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/25/croatia.tito/index.html   (256 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tito was born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, Croatia, a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, in an area called Zagorje.
His father Franjo Broz was a Croat, while his mother Marija (born Javeršek) was Slovenian.
After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec, and failed the first grade.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Tito   (2720 words)

  
 Tito Dies: 1980
Yugoslavia's unity was so closely associated with Tito that when he died in 1980, it marked the beginning of the end of a unified Yugoslavia.
Josip Broz Tito was born in 1892, the seventh of 15 children in Kumrovec, Croatia.
His parents were peasants, and he spent the early part of his life in a poor community in the countryside.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/easteurope/TitoDies.html   (510 words)

  
 Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yugoslav statesman and president (1953­80), born in Kumrovec, Croatia.
In World War1 he served with the Austro­Hungarian army, was taken prisoner by the Russians, and became a Communist.
He broke with Stalin and the Cominform in 1948, developing Yugoslavia's independent style of Communism (Titoism), and played a leading role in the association of nonaligned countries.
faculty.virginia.edu /setear/courses/howweget/tito1.htm   (105 words)

  
 The Whiskey River: Democracy is exploding.
An explosive device blasted a monument to Yugoslavia's late communist leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito in his native village of Kumrovec in northern Croatia, state news agency Hina reported yesterday.
The device was planted at night by the life-size statue of the man who created Yugoslavia after World War 2 and ruled it with an iron fist until his death in 1980, Hina quoted local police spokesman Josip Janzek as saying.
The statue was erected near the house where Tito was born in Kumrovec, close to the border with Slovenia.
thewhiskeyriver.blogspot.com /2004/12/democracy-is-exploding.html   (154 words)

  
 Balkan Bethlehem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
KUMROVEC, Croatia--Ten years ago, former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito was reviled about as much as anything else connected with the country's odious communist period.
During Tito´s rule, for those who followed the leader's cult of personality, the place to be was his native home in the village of Kumrovec, about 50 kilometers from Zagreb, near the Slovenian border.
Situated in an old part of the village, Tito's home was built in 1860 and turned into a memorial museum in 1952.
www.tol.cz /look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=21&NrSection=1&NrArticle=751&ST1=body&ST_T1=letter&ST_AS1=0&ST_LS1=-1&ST_max=1   (728 words)

  
 Adriatic Sunshine Travel : tours to croatia on request > Slovenia, Croatia and Austria
Drive to Kumrovec, a charming village of the Zagorje region, situated by the river of Sutla.
Visit the ethnological museum Old village of Kumrovec, a unique museum in the open where you'll have a chance to enter thirty preserved old houses that represent the life and craft of this region from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
From Kumrovec we drive by the Miljana castle to Veliki Tabor, the most preserved mediaeval fortress in Croatia.
www.adriaticsunshine.com /print/sloveniacroatiaaustria.htm   (528 words)

  
 Kumrovec/Croatia - photos of Croatia on Worldisround
Croatia - travel photos - Squeezed between Croatian/Slovenian border and the Sutla river, small village of Kumrovec...
Squeezed between Croatian/Slovenian border and the Sutla river, small village of Kumrovec would be left unnoticed if former Yugoslav leader J.B. Tito had not been born there.
Interior and various tools from the past, inside one of the houses in Kumrovec.
www.worldisround.com /articles/106948   (160 words)

  
 photoproject   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Kumrovec Zone is an art- and cultural movement out of Kumrovec in Croatia (near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia).
The jury consists of members of the Kumrovec Zone: I.Divljakovic, F.Doncic and K.Miksa.
Afterwards, the same exhibition will be shown in the Gallery of Kumrovec (the birthplace J. Tito).
www.artingrid.de /photoproject.htm   (331 words)

  
 Why We Go to War - Josip Broz Tito
He was the first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, a backer of independent roads to socialism (sometimes referred to as "national communism"), and a promoter of the policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War.
Josip Broz was born to a large peasant family in Kumrovec, northwest of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, of a Croat father and a Slovene mother.
He was apprenticed to a locksmith in 1907 and completed his training in 1910, when he joined the Social Democratic Party of Croatia-Slavonia at Zagreb.
faculty.virginia.edu /setear/courses/howweget/tito.htm   (2147 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito: Chronology Part One
Marija and Franjo Broz of Kumrovec, house number 8, get their seventh child Josip, who since WWII celebrates his birthday on May 25.
Kumrovec - Rajhenburg - Ljubljana - Trst and again Kumrovec; looking for a job.
He was also at Kumrovec, without saying hello to anyone there.
www.titoville.com /partone.html   (2261 words)

  
 Tito on stamps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tito was born as Josip Broz in 1892 in the town of Kumrovec, Croatia.
In 1920, he became member of the soon to be banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
He is buried in his mausoleum in Belgrade.
www14.brinkster.com /philayu/SFRJ/Tito.htm   (259 words)

  
 Late Yugoslav ruler Tito enjoys comeback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Several thousand people gathered on May 4 in Kumrovec, his birthplace in northern Croatia, where sirens wailed at 3:05 p.m., the exact time of his death.
A pub called ‘'The Old Man'’ recently opened in Kumrovec and local leaders have restored the entire village in the hope of reviving once-thriving tourism.
Thousands of children dressed in white and blue with red scarves were bussed into Kumrovec to be sworn in as ‘'Tito’s Pioneers'’ each May and mile-long cordons of ‘'workers and peasants'’ threw flowers at his Mercedes wherever he went.
www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000520atitoreluk.htm   (845 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josip Broz Tito was born on the 7
Kumrovec is a part of Croatia, which at this time was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy.
His mother was born in Slovenia and his father in Croatia.
pages.unibas.ch /schulen/wgym/projekte/works/tito.htm   (592 words)

  
 Tito not forgotten in former Yugoslavia
KUMROVEC, Croatia (AFP) - Twenty-five years after the death of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, the citizens of his shattered federation still cling to nostalgic memories of better days under his benign dictatorship.
He appreciated all classes, notably the poor," said Josip Banjsak, 58, a guard at the Tito museum in his native village of Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia.
In 2004, some 22,000 people, most of them Croatians and Slovenians, visited Kumrovec to pay their respects and see his childhood home, which has been restored to its original 19th-century-village style.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1396350/posts   (1137 words)

  
 Stara vura - Kumrovec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The “Stara Vura” restaurant is a modern catering establishment, but at the same time offers its visitors a warm and cozy family atmosphere.
It is located in the town of Kumrovec in the heart of the Croatian Zagorje region.
Restoran Stara vura Kumrovec; +385 49 553 137; Josipa Broza 13, 49295 Kumrovec
www.staravura-kumrovec.hr /eng/onama.php   (138 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He fought Nazi occupation, made Yugoslavia independent fron the Soviet Union in 1948, and served as President until 1980.
Josip Broz was born in Kumrovec, Austro-Hungary on May 7, 1892.
He fought with the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, and was captured by the Russians.
ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/PeopleView.cfm?PID=373   (637 words)

  
 YET::Adriatic Shores
Along the shores of the Adriatic Sea lie cities and villages that unlock the legacy of this culturally rich and historic region.
Arrive in the Croatian capital of Zagreb and visit the bucolic Zagorje Villages, including the museum-village of Kumrovec.
Travel to the coast, embark on the 34-guest yacht Callisto, and sail to the island of Rab, with its well-preserved medieval town.
alumni.yale.edu /aya/yet/program/index.php?id=45   (130 words)

  
 Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980), president of Yugoslavia, who established a Communist state independent of the USSR after World War II (1939-1945), and later became a leader of the Nonaligned Movement.
Originally named Josip Broz, he was born in Kumrovec, Croatia of a Slovene mother and a Croatian peasant father.
Tito served as a noncommissioned officer in the Austrian army during World War I (1914-1918) and after the war he returned to Croatia to work as an illegal Communist Party organizer.
www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/Tito.html   (684 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - josip broz titoTito_Slovenia_ul
My hero was born in Kumrovec in 1892.
He lived in the former state of Yugoslavia.
He was born on 7th May in 1892 in Kumrovec in Croatia.
www.myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Tito_Slovenia_ul   (148 words)

  
 IBUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
– Trakošćan and Kumrovec – Breakfast in Zagreb.
Later trip to Kumrovec, open air ethnological museum with the exhibits of old craftsmanship.
In the afternoon, bus ride through Zagorje with panoramic sites of ethno village Kumrovec, castle Veliki Tabor with a dinner in authentic ethno restaurant.
www.ibus.hr /en/izleti.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Laibach interviews
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980), president of Yugoslavia, who established a Communist state independent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) after World War II (1939-1945), and later became a leader of the nonaligned nations.
Originally named Josip Broz, he was born in Kumrovec, Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary).
Tito became a Bolshevik at the time of the Russian Revolution (1917).
members.tripod.com /NSKunst/misc/tito.html   (235 words)

  
 Kumrovec Travel Tips - Kumrovec Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
Tips and photos for Kumrovec vacations and tourism, posted by real travelers and Kumrovec locals.
Morti je to zaradi teg kaj su nas tu vlekli za vuha ak smo se hihotali v Brozovoj hiži, ampak radi teg kaj su v hiži i okolo nje navek stajali neki strièeki obleèeni kak da je vuni sneg do kolena.
Je, navek smo rada hodili v Kumrovec zaradi teg kaj teg dana ni bilo skole a borme i zarad teg kaj smo Tita imeli rad.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Croatia/Central_Croatia/Kumrovec-386721/General_Tips-Kumrovec-BR-1.html   (268 words)

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