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Krapina is a town in northern Croatia, center of the Krapina-Zagorje county, 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).
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