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Kumrovec is a village in the central part of Croatia, part of the Krapina-Zagorje county. The Kumrovec municipality has 1,854 residents (2001), but the town itself has only 304 people.
Kumrovec's claim to fame is that it was the birth place of Josip Broz Tito, the president of former Yugoslavia. This village is indeed very, very small but is popularity during the former Yugoslavia was major. Anyone who passed or stayed in Kumrovec had to visit the house where Tito was born which was a major honor. There were field trips to Kumrovec, just because of this house. The people of Kumrovec were treated like very important persons. All the national contests on the subject of The work and life of Tito were held here. Kumrovec was like a village from were god himself came.
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