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Bjelovar is a city in Croatia, the center of the Bjelovar-Bilogora county, population 41,869 (2001).
Bjelovar is one of the younger towns of Central Croatia, as it was first mentioned in 1413, and it only gained importance when a new fort was built in 1756 to defend against the Ottoman invasions.
The town had to wait until the end of the wars to be pronounced a free royal town by ban Ivan Mažuranić in 1874.
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