Editing Zagreb (section)

===16th to 18th centuries===

[[File:Zagreb-Valvasor.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Modern Zagreb's town core emerged from the Upper Town [[medieval]] settlements of [[Gradec, Zagreb|Gradec]] and [[Kaptol, Zagreb|Kaptol]]. Picture from 1689.]]

There were numerous connections between the Kaptol diocese and the free sovereign town of Gradec for both economic and political reasons, but they were not known as an integrated city, even as Zagreb became the political center, and the regional Sabor ({{langx |la| Congregatio Regnorum Croatiae, Dalmatiae et Slavoniae}}) representing Croatia, [[Slavonia]] and [[Dalmatia]], first convened at Gradec. Zagreb became the Croatian capital in 1557, with city also being chosen as the seat of the [[Ban of Croatia]] in 1621 under ban [[Nikola IX Frankopan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.visit-croatia.co.uk/croatia-destinations/zagreb/history-zagreb/#:~:text=The%20name%20Zagreb%20first%20emerged,seat%20of%20the%20Croatian%20viceroys. |title= History of Zagreb |access-date= 20 March 2021 |archive-date= 23 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210423044352/https://www.visit-croatia.co.uk/croatia-destinations/zagreb/history-zagreb/#:~:text=The%20name%20Zagreb%20first%20emerged,seat%20of%20the%20Croatian%20viceroys. |url-status= live  | quote = [...] in 1621 the city was picked to become the seat of the Croatian viceroys.}}</ref>

At the invitation of the [[Croatian Parliament]], the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] came to Zagreb and built the first [[grammar school]],<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Varga
 |first1               = Szabolcs
 |editor-last1         = Bendel
 |editor-first1        = Rainer
 |editor-last2         = Spannenberger
 |editor-first2        = Norbert
 |year                 = 2010
 |chapter              = Ethnic Groups, Denominations and Migration in South Danubia and Slavonia
 |title                = Kirchen als Integrationsfaktor für die Migranten im Südosten der Habsburgermonarchie im 18. Jahrhundert
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=2xTW9cIRxbIC
 |series               = Kirche und Gesellschaft im Karpaten-Donauraum - volume 1
 |publication-place    = Münster
 |publisher            = LIT Verlag
 |page                 = 18
 |isbn                 = 9783643100450
 |access-date          = 3 October 2023
 |quote                = The first Jesuit college opened in Zagreb in 1606 [...].
}} 
</ref>
the [[Catherine of Alexandria|St. Catherine's]] Church (built 1620-1632<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Letcher
 |first1               = Piers
 |last2                = McKelvie
 |first2               = Robin
 |last3                = McKelvie
 |first3               = Jenny
 |date                 = May 2007
 |orig-date            = 2003
 |chapter              = Zagreb
 |title                = Croatia: The Bradt Travel Guide
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=cHpDTbdQFkQC
 |series               = Bradt Guides
 |edition              = 3
 |publication-place    = Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire
 |publisher            = Bradt Travel Guides
 |page                 = 103
 |isbn                 = 9781841621920
 |access-date          = 3 October 2023
 |quote                = The Jesuits were also responsible for [St Catherine's Square (Katarina Trg)'s] main attraction, and  Zagreb's finest baroque church, St Catherine's. Built between 1620 and 1632, it features some highly superior 18th-century stucco work and an amazing trompe l'oeil altarpiece [...] an extraordinary work from 1762 [...].
}} 
</ref>)
and monastery. In 1669, they founded an academy where philosophy, theology, and law were taught, the forerunner of today's [[University of Zagreb]].

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Zagreb was badly devastated by fire and by [[Bubonic plague|the plague]]. In 1776, the royal council (government) moved from [[Varaždin]] to Zagreb and during the reign of the Emperor [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]] Zagreb became the headquarters of the [[Varaždin]] and [[Karlovac]] general command.<ref name="HRT">{{cite web |url= http://www.hrt.hr/arhiv/hrvati_u_svijetu/upoznajte_hrvatsku/03_glavni_grad_hrvatske/zagreb_eng.html |title= The city of Zagreb |work= hrt.hr |publisher= [[Croatian Radiotelevision]] |access-date=2 July 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070117124718/http://www.hrt.hr/arhiv/hrvati_u_svijetu/upoznajte_hrvatsku/03_glavni_grad_hrvatske/zagreb_eng.html<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date= 17 January 2007}}</ref>