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Slavonski Brod is the sixth largest city in Croatia, after Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek and Zadar. Brod is the center of a built-up area of more than 110,000 inhabitants including Brod in Bosnia, Sibinj, Bukovlje, Brodski Stupnik, Podcrkavlje, Gornja Vrba and Klakar. The following settlements comprise the administrative area of Slavonski Brod: [3]
Brod-Posavina County (Croatian: Brodsko-posavska županija) is the southern Slavonian county in Croatia. Its center is the city of Slavonski Brod and it spreads along the left bank of the Sava river, hence the name Posavina .
The internal central part of the Fortress is rectangular and consists of four bastions connected by defensive walls. The bastions - pentagonal rammed earth bulwarks brick walled from the outside were organized for the final resistance against the enemies, and were used to monitor the area in front of the Fortress, defend the external walls and the neighboring bastion.
Brodski Varoš is a village in municipality of Slavonski Brod in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia.The town is notable for being the birthplace of Đuro Đaković, a prominent labor rights activist and communist revolutionary in Yugoslavia between two World Wars.
From the mid-18th century the village witnessed advanced urbanization and it became the seat of the 5th company (captaincy) of the Brod regiment. During the 'Canonical Visitation' in 1748, it was established that the village had 41 houses with 298 grown-ups and 100 children. Most of the population were soldiers (Grenzers) and/or common villagers.
It was nicknamed Zebras (Zebre) and attached to the Slavonski Brod SPU. The unit also contained a platoon of special police drawn from Požega. [41] Besides the Nova Gradiška and Požega platoons, the unit comprised one reserve and two active platoons based in Slavonski Brod. Its personnel were trained at the Valbandon Training Centre.
The Croatian Archival Council supported the initiative, leading to the establishment of the Historical Archive of Slavonski Brod on March 16, 1959, by the decision of the People's Committee of the Slavonski Brod district. [2] After the independence of Croatia, the Ministry of Culture took over the role of founder of the archives on May 27, 1994 ...
The synagogue was burned by Nazis in 1941, and its remains were bombed by allied forces during the bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944. The congregation's rabbi , Leib Weissberg , was killed with his family at the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942.