Sisak (; also known by other alternative names) is a

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in central

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, spanning the confluence of the

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and Odra rivers, southeast of the Croatian capital

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, and is usually considered to be where the

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(

basin) begins, with an

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of 99 m. The city's total population in 2021 was 40,185 of which 27,886 live in the urban settlement (naselje). Sisak is the administrative centre of the

Sisak-Moslavina County Sisak-Moslavina County () is a Croatian county in eastern Central Croatia and southwestern Slavonia. It is named after the city of Sisak and the region Moslavina just across the river Sava. According to the 2021 census, it is inhabited by 140, ...

, Croatia's biggest river

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and a centre of river shipping industry (Dunavski Lloyd). It lies on the D36 state road and the Zagreb-Sisak- Novska railway. Sisak is a regional economic, cultural and historical center. The largest

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in Croatia is here.

Name

Prior to belonging to the

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, which gave it the Latin name Siscia, the region was

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and Illyrian and the city there was named Segestica or Segesta. Writers in

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referred to the city as , , and . In German the town is known as , , and in

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and Slovene as '.

History

Roman empire

Siscia is described by Roman writers as a great town in the south of Upper Pannonia, on the southern bank of the Savus, on an island formed by that river and two others, the Colapis and Odra, a canal dug by

Tiberius Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus ( ; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37. He succeeded his stepfather Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC to Roman politician Tiberius Cl ...

completing the island. It was on the great road from Aemona to

Sirmium Sirmium was a city in the Roman province of Pannonia, located on the Sava river, on the site of modern Sremska Mitrovica in the Vojvodina autonomous province of Serbia. First mentioned in the 4th century BC and originally inhabited by Illyrians ...

. According to Pliny the name Segestica belonged only to the island, and the town was called Siscia; while

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...

says that Siscia was a

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in the neighbourhood of Segestica; but if this was so, it must be supposed that subsequently the fort and town became united as one place. Siscia was from the first a strongly fortified town; and after its capture by

, in the reign of

Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (), was the founder of the Roman Empire, who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in A ...

, it became one of the most important places of

Pannonia Pannonia (, ) was a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, on the west by Noricum and upper Roman Italy, Italy, and on the southward by Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia and upper Moesia. It ...

; for being on two navigable rivers, it not only carried on considerable commerce, but became the central point from which Augustus and Tiberius carried on their undertakings against the

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and

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. Tiberius did much to enlarge and embellish the town, which as early as that time seems to have been made a , for Pliny mentions it as such: in the time of

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; ; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through cursus honorum, the ...

it received fresh colonists, whence in inscriptions it is called ''Col. Septimia Siscia''. The town contained an imperial mint, which produced coins under a series of emperors between 262 and 383 AD. The

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martyr Quirinus of Sescia, presumed the first bishop of the Diocese of Sescia, was tortured and nearly killed during

Diocletian Diocletian ( ; ; ; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia. As with other Illyri ...

persecution of Christians The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts to Christianity have both been targeted for persecution, sometimes to the point ...

. Legend has it that they tied him to a millstone and threw him into a river, but he freed himself from the weight, escaped and continued to preach his faith. Today he is the

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of Sisak. When Diocletian split Pannonia into four provinces, Siscia became the capital of Pannonia Savia, the southwestern one, for which Siscia contained the treasury; at the same time it was the station of the small fleet kept on the Savus. Siscia maintained its importance until Sirmium began to rise, for in proportion as Sirmium rose, Siscia sank and declined.

Middle Ages

Braslav of Lower Pannonia reigned from Sisak until he was killed in the Hungarian invasion ca. 898. According to '' Historia Salonitana'', Duke Tomislav reclaimed it soon after.

Early modern

The 16th-century triangular

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of the Old Town, well-preserved and turned into the Native Museum, is the main destination of every tourist. The fortress is famous for the victory of the joint forces of

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, Austrians and

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ns (

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) over the

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in 1593, known as the

Battle of Sisak The Battle of Sisak was fought on 22 June 1593 between Ottoman Bosnian forces and a combined Christian army from the Habsburg lands, mainly the Kingdom of Croatia and Inner Austria. The battle took place at Sisak, central Croatia, at the confl ...

. It was one of the early significant defeats of the up-to-then invincible Ottoman army on European territory. The Croatian Ban Thomas Erdődy who led the defense in this battle became famous throughout

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. However this victory didn't prevent Sisak from Ottoman conquest on 24 August 1593. During their brief rule, it was called ''Siska''. Its fortress was manned, a sanjak beg was appointed and a mosque was built in the fortress. On 11 August 1594, Ottoman forces fled and set the fortress on fire after a powerful Habsburg-Croat army approached.Ive Mažuran: Povijest Hrvatske od 15. stoljeća do 18. stoljeća, p. 148 The

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palace of ''Mali Kaptol'', the

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''Veliki Kaptol'', the brick ''Stari most'' ("Old Bridge") over the Kupa, and the ethnological park are the most frequently visited landmarks.

Modern

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Sisak was a district capital in the

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of the

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Modern history

From 1929 to 1939, Sisak was part of the Sava Banovina, and from 1939 to 1941, of the Banovina of Croatia within the

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. During

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, the Sisak children's concentration camp was set up by the Croatian

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government for Serbian,

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and Romani children. It is estimated that 1,160–1,600 children lost their lives at the camp. On 22 June 1941, the day

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invaded the

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, the Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment, also known as the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, was formed by the outlawed Croatian Communist Party in the Brezovica Forest, near Sisak. It was the first Partisan armed

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resistance unit formed in occupied Yugoslavia following the

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by the

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in April 1941. It had 79 members, mainly

with the exception of one notable Serb woman, Nada Dimić, and was commanded by a Croat, Vladimir Janjić-Capo. With the outbreak of the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

in 1991, Sisak remained in Government hands while the territory to the south was controlled by rebelling Serbs. During the war, the Serb forces often shelled the city, causing dozens of civilian casualties and extensive damage to the city's industry. According to

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, Serb civilians in Sisak and surrounding areas were subjected to abductions, killings, assault and threats with at least 33 killed between 1991 and 1992, while local human rights activists in Croatia claim that over 100 Serb residents of the Sisak region were killed during the entirety of the war. The frontline dramatically moved eastwards as a result of

Operation Storm Operation Storm ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Operacija Oluja, separator=" / ", Операција Олуја) was the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and a major factor in the outcome of the Bosnian War. It was a decisive victory f ...

(1995), effectively ending the war. Sisak suffered much damage during the

2020 Petrinja earthquake At 12:19 PM Central European Time, CET (11:19 UTC) on 29 December 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 (6.2 ) hit central Croatia, with an epicenter located roughly west-southwest of Petrinja. The maximum felt intensity was estimated at VIII ( ...

. The town, located roughly northeast of the epicenter, reported damage to the hospital as well as city hall and various churches. Most of the damage was inflicted on old buildings in the center of the town. However, early figures estimate that 700 to 1,000 homes were damaged in Sisak and nearby villages.

Population

In the 2011 census, of the total population of 47,768 there were 40,590

(84.97%), 3,071

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(6.43%), 1,646

Bosniaks The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

(3.45%), 648 Romani (1.36%), 179

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(0.37%), 29

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(0.06%), and the rest were other ethnicities. In the 2011 census, the population by religion was 37,319

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(78.13%; since 2009 again served by their own Diocese of Sisak), 3,279 Orthodox Christians (6.86%), 2,442

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(5.11%) and others.

Municipal makeup

The city's administrative area is composed of the following settlements: * Blinjski Kut, population 278 * Budaševo, population 1,660 * Bukovsko, population 89 * Crnac, population 553 * Čigoč, population 97 * Donje Komarevo, population 322 * Gornje Komarevo, population 508 * Greda, population 861 * Gušće, population 387 * Hrastelnica, population 898 * Jazvenik, population 142 * Klobučak, population 68 * Kratečko, population 200 * Letovanci, population 52 *

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, population 111 * Lukavec Posavski, population 127 * Madžari, population 235 * Mužilovčica, population 74 * Novo Pračno, population 444 * Novo Selo, population 624 * Novo Selo Palanječko, population 517 * Odra Sisačka, population 814 * Palanjek, population 318 * Prelošćica, population 528 * Sela, population 969 * Sisak, population 33,049 * Stara Drenčina, population 223 * Staro Pračno, population 896 * Staro Selo, population 110 * Stupno, population 480 * Suvoj, population 42 * Topolovac, population 894 * Veliko Svinjičko, population 271 * Vurot, population 102 * Žabno, population 509

Administrative division

The administrative sections of Sisak are the city neighboorhoods () and local administrative boards (). The city neighborhoods are: * Caprag * Centar * Galdovo * Sisak Novi * Zeleni Brijeg The local administrative boards are: * "Braća Bobetko" Crnac * Blinjski Kut * Budaševo * Bukovsko * Capraške Poljane * Čigoć * Greda * Gušće * Hrastelnica * Jazvenik * Klobučak * Komarevo * Kratečko * Lukavec Posavski * Madžari-Letovanci * Mužilovčica * Novo Pračno * Novo Selo * Novo Selo Palanječko * Odra * Palanjek * Prelošćica * Sela * Stara Drenčina * Staro Pračno * Staro Selo * Stupno * Suvoj-Lonja * Topolovac * Veliko Svinjičko * Vurot * Žabno

Politics

Minority councils and representatives

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and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. In the most recent election to the Sisak ethnic minority council, the local

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

, Roma, and Serb minorities each fulfilled the legal requirements to elect a total of 15 deputies to the minority council of the City of Sisak; while the local Albanian minority elected a representative.

Miscellaneous

Chief occupations are farming, ferrous metallurgy (iron works), chemicals, leather (footwear), textiles and food processing plants (

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products, alcoholic beverages),

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material,

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and thermal power. Sisak features the largest metallurgic factory and the largest oil refinery in

. Sisak has many rich mineral springs ( spas) with healing properties in the

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range from . The city hosts

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's Faculty of

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Sports

Sports and recreation areas in the town and its surroundings are mainly rivers and alluvial plains. The

, Odra, and

rivers, with their headwaters, offer fishing opportunities; there is a public beach on the Kupa. There are

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grounds in the regions of Turopolje and

. Sisak is the starting point for sightseeing tours into Lonjsko Polje (The Field of the

River) nature park. The local

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club is HNK Segesta. Sisak features the oldest ice hockey club in Croatia, KHL Sisak, established in 1934. The local chapter of the Croatian Mountaineering Society (HPS) is ''HPD "Gvozd"'', which had 61 members in 1936 under the Viktor Borovečki presidency. At the time, it had a ski section. Membership fell to 43 in 1937. Membership fell to 41 in 1938.

Geography

Climate

Since records began in 1949, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station at an elevation of was , on 24 August 2012. The coldest temperature was , on 12 January 1985.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Sisak is twinned with:

References

Bibliography

Notes

External links

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Radio Sisak - Hometown radio station

Sisak Tourism
* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Croatia Spa towns in Croatia Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Zagreb County (former)