18.11.10

How Zagreb got its name

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful woman called Manda who'd come to the well on the outskirts of Kaptol, nowadays the center of Zagreb each day to get water for her family. One day, a man called out to her and said "Mandušo, zagrabi (=scoop)!"... so the well became Manduševac (now a fountain), and Zagreb got its name from "scooping" the water by Manda :)

5 comments:

  1. Interesting:) And beautiful photo! Great colors of the water, reminds me beautiful Adriatic:)

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  2. Thank you! This is really nice to know.

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  3. cool! this is perfect for my report on croatia!!

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  4. The writing isn't very detailed or useful, try again.

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