AGRAM (Hungarian Zagreb, Croatian Zagreb)  , the capital of Croatia-Slavonia, and a royal free town of Hungary; pleasantly situated between the north bank of the Save and the mountains which culminate in Sljeme (3396 ft.); 187 m. by rail S. of Vienna . Pop . (189o) 38,742; (1900) 57,930, or with garrison 61,002 . Agram is the seat of the ban, or viceroy, of Croatia-Slavonia, of the Banal and Septemviral courts, the highest in the land, and of a chamber of commerce: It is also the meeting-place of the parliament; but local affairs are con-ducted by a municipal council . The city is divided into three districts . The Kapitel-Stadt, sometimes called the Bishop's Town, with the palace of the Roman Catholic archbishop, and his late Gothic cathedral, dating from the 15th century, lies eastward of the Medvescak, a brook which flows into the Save . The Upper Town, on high ground west of the Medvescak, contains the palace of the ban and the natural history museum . On the south, the Lower Town is separated from the other districts by the Ilica, a long street, traversed by a cable tramway . In it are the business and industrial quarters; the palace of justice; the academy of science, with picture-galleries, a library and a collection of antiquities; the theatre; the Franz Josef University, founded in 1874 to teach theology, law and philosophy; the synagogue; and the only Protestant church existing in the country at the beginning of the 20th century . Roman Catholic churches and schools are numerous . Besides the large Maximir park and botanical gardens, many of the squares are planted with trees and adorned with statues; while the whole city is surrounded by vineyards and country houses . Tobacco, leather, linen, carpets and war-material are manufactured in Agram, which also contains the works of the Hungarian state railways, and has a brisk trade in grain, wine, potash, honey, silk and porcelain .

In 1094 Agram was founded by

Ladislaus I. of Hungary, as the seat of a bishop; and on the expulsion of its Mongol colony, in 1242, it was raised to the rank of a royal free city . For centuries a bitter feud raged between the Kapitel-Stadt and the Upper Town, until these rivals were forced to join hands against the Turks . Agram, already the political centre of Croatia, . Slavonia, was selected as the capital in 1867 . It suffered severely from earthquake in 188o and ;got .