It is much larger than its country's biggest port Rijeka, which lies on Kvarner Bay, and also dwarves the second-largest city of Split on the Dalmatian coast.  
The oldest section of this city is founded on two medieval towns, a religious settlement known as Kaptol and a walled region known as Gric.  Those two towns combined in the 19th century when this city began to grow on the Sava floodplain, after starting out as a small site at the base of Medvednica Hill.  It lies in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin and is home to a noted memorial with an eternal flame, the Shrine of the Homeland.  It lies to the south of the Zagorje forest, and the nearby Mount Sljeme provides a view of the Kupa Valley and the Julian Alps.  It is much larger than its country's biggest port Rijeka, which lies on Kvarner Bay, and also dwarves the second-largest city of Split on the Dalmatian coast.  FTP, name this capital city of a country separated from Italy on the west by Slovenia and wrapping around Bosnia Herzegovina in the south, which serves as the capital of Croatia.
The oldest section of this city is founded on two medieval towns, a religious settlement known as Kaptol and a walled region known as Gric.  
Zagreb