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The first railroad track was built here in 1860, helping to connect Budapest (Budimpešta ) with the ports Rijeka (Fiume) and Trieste (Trst). It was connected with the railroad with Mursko Sredisce, Lendava in 1889. The road infrastructure is good, including a new expressway connecting the Hungary border-crossing point Goričan with Zagreb, Karlovac, and the Adriatic sea. It is connected to local municipalities with an efficient public transportation system.
In Roman times, as the geographer Strabo reported, in the 1st century AD, this was the site of Aquama (wet town), at the time a marshland, a military post and legionnaire camp. Its name comes from the count Dimitry Csaky (Dimitrij Čak), who with the beginning of the 13th century erected the timber fortification later named "Csaky's tower". It was mentioned for the first time in 1328. The place appears in the official books in 1333. After 1579, the population of craftsmen outside the walls were granted the right to trade, becoming the beginning of the city strucure.
In 1546, (1553?) the counts of Zrinski became the owners of Čakovec. At that time, the castle was lavishly decorated, surrounded by a park and sculptures of famous army leaders and monarchs. At the end of the 18th century the owners of the town became the counts Festetić, and the town was turned into a big estate where industry, crafts and trade developed. In 1848, the count (ban) Josip Jelačić liberated Čakovec from Hungarians and joined it to Croatia. In 1893 electric power was introduced to the city.
Čakovec is the economic, traffic, cultural, and legislative center of Medjimurska zupanija. As an administrative center, Čakovec offers the Gymnasium, technical and construction high schools, and the academy, (Pedagoška Akademija Čakovec).
The economy of the area is based on textiles (Međimurska trikotaža), footwear (Jelen), food processing (Vajda and Čakovecki mlinovi), and metal plants. Also important are printing and publishing activities of (Zrinski), building materials and construction, and plastics. Although modern in architecture, dynamic with a highly developed industry and a busy hub for communication, business, trade, education within and between the counties/countries, its old core has been beautifully preserved and renovated. There is a local museum of Međimurje in the castle, protecting 17,000 valuable items. There are also libraries, advanced media, theatres, hospitals, and festivities in both sport and culture.
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