The oldest mention of the place is as Zlatharia owned by the Bedeković family from the late 13th century. The name Zlatar is mentioned in its present form in 1566 as "possessio Zlatar" which belonged to the Aranyassy family. In 1699, the center of the church parish was transferred from Martinšćina to Zlatar, where a new parish church was built in 1762. Priest Ivan Gundak started the first elementary school in 1666 and in 1862 a new school was built.[3]
During the rule of Ivan Mažuranić, Zlatar became a municipal and district seat, and in 1875 became the capital of the sub-county. In 1873, the first reading room was established in Zlatar, which had about seventy members. In 1907, a telephone was introduced in Zlatar. Many societies and associations were founded like a branch of the Croatian Falcon and the “Lastavica” cycling club. In the same year, two weekly papers began to be published: “Hrvatska Hrvatom” by the Party of Rights and “Zlatarski tjednik” by the Croat-Serb Coalition. In the 1935 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, representatives of the Croatian Peasant Party won in the Zlatar district. In 1937, Mirko Sviben became mayor, and among his first actions was to once again display the Croatian flag and have Cyrillic inscriptions removed from Zlatar. In the first parliamentary elections in Croatia in 1990, the HDZ won the majority of votes in Zlatar.[3]
Demographics
In the 2021 census, there were 5,574 inhabitants in the following settlements:[2]
The local chapter of the HPS is HPD "Oštrc", which had 21 members in 1936 under the Josip Rauer presidency.[5] In 1937, 1 major and 9 minor expeditions were organised.[6]:252 Membership fell to 13 in 1938.[7]:224,251
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