Kutina

Kutina lies in Moslavina, along a stream of the same name between wooded hills and the lowlands of the Sava basin. Mentioned in a charter of King Béla IV in 1256, it was a medieval market and a parish of the bishopric of Zagreb. Its church of All Saints appears in the parish list of 1334, while later records distinguish Upper, Lower and Great Kutina.

Ottoman campaigns devastated Kutina and the surrounding country, and the settlement spent a period under Ottoman rule. After the Ottomans withdrew, the Erdődy counts recovered the estate, bringing in their dependants and settlers from other parts of Croatia. In the later eighteenth century the family promoted the rebuilding of Kutina: new settlements were established and woodland cleared, changing the landscape around the old market.