Kraljevec na Sutli

In ancient times, a road passed through the Sutla river valley, which was important until the Middle Ages. The oldest toponyms from the municipality are Grača and Radakovo.

The settlement was first mentioned in 1463 in a document of King Matthias Corvinus, in which the King confirmed ownership of Cesargrad, along with Rizvic, Kumrovec, Tuhelj, Kraljevac and the market town of Klanjec, to the Styrian nobleman Andrija Baumkircher. From 1521, it belonged to the Counts Erdody, who ruled it and the surrounding areas, along with the Novi Dvori castle, until 1914, when they sold the estates to the Bruckner family. The Erdodys had a great influence on the development of the Radakovo settlement when, after the fall of the Croatian Kingdom in Bosnia and the fall of the two strongest fortresses, Bobovac and Kraljeva Sutjeska, they allowed the fleeing people to settle in the area. The parish of Kraljevec began its activities in 1782 in Kapelski Vrh, in the chapel of St. Joseph, and in 1836 the church of the Holy Trinity was built.^[3]

In the 2021 census, there were a total of 1,591 inhabitants in the area, in the following settlements:^[2]

• Draše, population 145
• Gornji Čemehovec, population 101
• Kačkovec, population 148
• Kapelski Vrh, population 100
• Kraljevec na Sutli, population 318
• Lukavec Klanječki, population 65
• Movrač, population 122
• Pušava, population 28
• Radakovo, population 455
• Strmec Sutlanski, population 109

In the same census, an absolute majority of the population were Croats at 99.18%.^[2]