Zagreb - Hrvatski državni arhiv (44791668054)

Archivo Nacional, Zagreb, Croacia, 2014-04-20, DD 02

Laura Bush visits the Croatian State Archives

The Croatian State Archives ( hr, Hrvatski državni arhiv) are the national archives of

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located in its capital,

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

. The history of the state archives can be traced back to the 17th century. There are also regional state archives located in

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, Karlovac, Osijek,

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, Rijeka, Sisak,

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and

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History

The Croatian State Archives trace their origin to a 1643 decision of the

Croatian Sabor The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Constitution of Croatia, Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the nation, people ...

in which the Kingdom's treasurer (blagajnik)

Ivan Zakmardi Ivan Zakmardi (c. 1600 - 20 April 1667) was a Croatian humanist, lawyer and poet, who served as the prothonotary of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in 1644, and was the representative of both the King and Ban of Croatia in legal matters. ...

is instructed to create an inventory of all the laws, charters and other documents. This was followed by the commission to construct a special chest at the Kingdom's expense which would house the most important documents in the aforementioned inventory.Stjepan Antoljak, Pregled hrvatske povijesti, Split, 1994., str. 101. The chest only had symbolic meaning, since it could only house a negligible amount of documentation and was located on the grounds of the

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. The number of laws and regulation were subsequently passed in relation to archiving documents. The Croatian Parliament named Ladislaus Kiraly as the first archivist of the kingdom in 1744, transferring the chest and the rest of the documentation to the Saint Mark's square in 1763.

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