Jakuševec is a neighborhood in the

Novi Zagreb – istok Novi Zagreb – istok (, "New Zagreb – east") is a district in Zagreb, Croatia. Within this district in the neighborhood of Travno lies Mamutica, which was built to be the largest communal housing block in southeast Europe. Mamutica towers a ...

city district of

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 Sl ...

, the capital of

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. Located on Sajmišna Road east of Sarajevska Road and Utrine,

Travno Travno is an urban settlement of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, located in a city district of Novi Zagreb – istok. It is one of the most densely populated settlements in Croatia mostly due to the largest apartment building in Croatia: Mamut ...

and

Dugave Dugave is an urban settlement of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, within Novi Zagreb – istok District. Its neighbors are Travno, Sloboština and Hrelić, making Dugave the center of its district. The quarter itself has over 10,000 residents an ...

apartment block complexes, the neighborhood is mostly uninhabited, with an area of 455.21 ha and a total population of around 2,000. It is the site of the city's largest landfill, the city's biggest

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market (referred to as "Hrelić" which is actually a separate settlement further south) and the Zlatni Konj art gallery. The first records of inhabitants in Jakuševec area date back to 1334 as "Parochia Sancti Marci Ev. in campo" ( en, Parish of

St. Mark the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist ( la, Marcus; grc-gre, Μᾶρκος, Mârkos; arc, ܡܪܩܘܣ, translit=Marqōs; Ge'ez: ማርቆስ; ), also known as Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Acco ...

in the field), which is the name recorded up to 1501. At that time, the parish' name is changed to "Parocha Sancti Marci Ev. in spinis" ( en, Parish of St. Mark the Evangelist among the thorns). However, during the leadership of

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Josip Vitković, the parish is renamed in 1871 to "Parish of Jakuševec" ( hr, Jakuševečka župa). Jakuševec remained a standalone village until 1991 when it was integrated along with several adjacent villages into the

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