|— City —| |• Mayor||Damir Jelić (HDZ)| |• City||401 km2 (155 sq
mi)| |Elevation||112 m (367 ft)| |• Density||140/km2 ( 360/sq
mi)| |Time zone||CET (UTC+1)| |• Summer (DST)||CEST (UTC+2)|
|Postal code||47 000| Karlovac (Croatian pronunciation:
[kâːrlov̞at͡s], Kajkavian: Karlovec) is a city and municipality
in central Croatia. According to the National census held in
2011 population of the settlement of Karlovac was 55,705. The
city was named for the Archduke of Austria Charles II (ruled
1564-1590). The German name Karlstadt or Carlstadt ("Charles's
Town") has undergone translation into other languages: in
Hungarian it is known as Károlyváros, in Italian as Carlostadio,
in Latin as Carlostadium. Karlovac was built from scratch in
1579 in order to strengthen Austria's southern defences against
Ottoman encroaches. The establishment of a new city-fortress was
a part of the deal between the Protestant nobility of Inner
Austria and the archduke Charles II of Austria, in exchange for
their religious freedom the nobi