Trnje is a district in the City of Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. According to the 2001 census, the district had 45,267 residents. It is located in the central part of the city, south of Donji grad

Donji Grad

Donji grad is one of the 17 city districts of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is located in the central part of the city and has 45,108 inhabitants . The official name of the district is rarely used, for it is dubbed centar by most of the Zagreb residents....

 across the railway (Zagreb Main Station

Zagreb Main Station

Zagreb Main Station is the central railway station in Zagreb and the largest railway station in Croatia. It is located in the center of Zagreb, on King Tomislav Square....

), east of Trešnjevka

Trešnjevka

Trešnjevka is a large neighbourhood in the western part of the city of Zagreb, Croatia.It is administratively divided into two districts:* Trešnjevka - sjever...

 (Savska road), west of Pešćenica (Vjekoslav Heinzel Avenue and Marin Držić Avenue

Marin Držic Avenue

Marin Držić Avenue is an important north-south avenue in the central-eastern part of Zagreb, Croatia. It is named after Marin Držić, a famous Croatian poet from the 16th century....

), and north of the river Sava. The Slavonska Avenue

Slavonska Avenue

Slavonska Avenue is a controlled-access avenue in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the longest street in Zagreb, being long. It mostly has a speed limit, although the speed is limited to on a short section near the Ivanja Reka interchange with the Zagreb bypass and to on the section between the Ivanja...

 intersects Trnje.

Trnje was amalgamated

Amalgamation (politics)

A merger or amalgamation in a political or administrative sense is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities such as municipalities , counties, districts, etc. into a single entity. This term is used when the process occurs within a sovereign entity...

 into the city in 1927 by Mayor Vjekoslav Heinzel

Vjekoslav Heinzel

Vjekoslav Heinzel was the Mayor of Zagreb from 1920 to 1928. He is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city....

, along with several other new districts, mainly for the purpose of housing people needed for Zagreb's industrial sector expansion.

As a district, Trnje has an elected council.

List of neighborhoods in Trnje

• Cvjetno naselje
• Kanal
  Kanal, Zagreb
  Kanal is a neighborhood in the city district of Trnje in Zagreb, Croatia. It is located northeast of the intersection of Vukovarska Avenue and Marin Držić Avenue and south of Radnička Road. The population is 1,700....
  
  
• Kruge
• Martinovka
• Savica
• Sigečica
• Vrbik
• Zavrtnica