The river Sava and corresponding Posavina river basin hold the cities of Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanski Brod and Bosanska Gradiška.

According to the written documents, Bosanska Gradiška was first mentioned a little more than 700 years ago under the name of Gradiški Brod.

The Slavonian Krajina was divided between three regiments, named after towns in the area: Gradiška, Brod, and Petrovaradin ; however, the regimental seat of the Brod regiment was in Vinkovci.

In Brod and Gradiška regiments Catholics outnumbered the minority Orthodox, and in Petrovaradin regiment the Orthodox were more numerous.

Sava is making a natural border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and towns like Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanska Gradiška lies on the river.

Several survivors, like Šimo Klaić, who stressed in Šakić's trial that Lepoglava " was horrible, as if all the evil from Stara Gradiška and Jasenovac had concentrated there ", fled from the train cart in which they were to be transported to Jasenovac.

Filipović went on to describe his tenure in command of Stara Gradiška, a prison camp primarily for women which was designated Camp V within the Jasenovac system:

There is no evidence that he was excommunicated by the Catholic Church, but he was reportedly removed from the Franciscan order on 22 October 1942, the date on which he was transferred to Stara Gradiška.

It is located on the left bank of the river Sava, across Bosanska Gradiška in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The municipality is geographically located in eastern Bosanska Krajina region, and the town is situated on the Lijevče plain, at the right bank of the Sava river across Stara Gradiška, Croatia, and about north of Banja Luka.

The overall complex included the Stara Gradiška sub-camp, the killing grounds across the Sava river at Donja Gradina, five work farms, and the Uštica Roma camp.

In the Middle Ages, Bosanska Gradiška had a major importance as the place where the Sava river used to be crossed.

It is also illustrated by the report sent by Hans Helm to Adolf Eichmann, in which it is stated that the Jews will first be collected in Stara-Gradiška, and that " Jews would be employed in ' forced labor ' in Ustaše camps ", mentioning only Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška ," will not be deported ".

As chief of camp Stara Gradiška, which predominantly housed women and children, Miroslav Filipović-Majstorović excelled in sadism.

Already in 1750 it was renamed to Neu-Gradischka which later became Nova Gradiška in Croatian language.

Metikoš relayed another offer from Drljević of negotiations in Stara Gradiška, which Đurišić and his remaining officers fatally accepted.

Stara Gradiška was one of the most notorious concentration and extermination camps in Croatia during World War II, mainly due to the crimes which were committed there against women and children.

Around the same time the website gained a reputation for yellow journalism after exposing a series of scandals, the two most notable being the 2003 controversy stirred by a discovered recording of popular singer Marko Perković in which Perković publicly performed Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara, a song praising the WWII fascist Ustaše regime, and the 2004 celebrity sex tape scandal involving Severina Vučković, a pop singer.

Gradiška regiment had 61, 596 inhabitants out of which 45, 601 were Roman Catholic and 15, 933 were Orthodox.

* Bistrica ( Bosanska Gradiška ), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina

It is important to note that one of the most important Bosnian Croat territories ( Posavina with Bosanski Brod, Bosanski Šamac, Derventa and Modriča ) was still left out of Bosnian Croat control.

Doboj, Foča, Rogatica, Vlasenica, Bratunac, Zvornik, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Ključ, Brčko, Derventa, Modrica, Bosanska Krupa, Bosanski Brod, Bosanski Novi, Glamoc, Bosanski Petrovac, Cajnice, Bijeljina, Višegrad, Donji Vakuf, and parts of Sarajevo are all areas where Serbs established control and expelled Bosniaks and Croats.

The war in Bosnia brought major ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs from the regions that today make up the Republika Srpska: throughout Bosanska Krajina ( notably the significant minority population of Bosniaks and Croats in Banja Luka, slight majority of Bosniaks in Prijedor ), Bosnian Posavina ( Croats as well as Bosniaks, from Brčko, Bosanski Brod, Doboj, Odžak, Derventa ), eastern Bosnia ( Bosniak majority population of Foča, Zvornik, Višegrad, Srebrenica, Žepa ), eastern Herzegovina ( Trebinje ).

There are three possible locations: Komňa, Nivnice and Uherský Brod ( all three locations are in Uherské Hradiště District, southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic ).

" He tended to participate in all the meetings, but up to then we had hardly considered each other ," wrote Brod.

In 2009 Atherton, her husband Brod Ross, her mother Pam Atherton and her mother-in law Betty Ross, all stood for election to the newly formed Cornwall Council.

Although Brod was instructed by Kafka to destroy all his works on his death, he did not and set about publishing Kafka's writings.

Those projects include a railway from Bosanski Brod to Zenica built in 1879, a Coal Mine ( 1880 ), Paper Works ( 1885 ), Steel Factory ( 1892 ) and a Prison ( 1886 ), all of which improved both the quality and quantity of city's development.

From rail bridge the Una enters Bosnia completely and flows through towns and villages of Martin Brod and Kulen Vakuf for 21 km, before reach border between two countries for the second time, 9 km downstream town of Kulen Vakuf, and from there forms a border for the next 20 km, all the way to another rail bridge between villages Malo Seoce and Užljebić.

On the eastern side border of the park goes from the entrance of the Unac River into its canyon, few kilometers downstream from town of Drvar, and follows the Unac and its canyon all the way to the confluence with the Una in town of Martin Brod.

In 2003, Ivo Sanader's government decided to finally deal with the issue which resulted in renaming all the streets bearing Budak's name save one ; the Mile Budak street in Slavonski Brod.

Robert Musil wrote the well-known novel The Man without Qualities, Stefan Zweig published a multitude of essays, stories and novels, Karl Kraus edited the magazine Die Fackel ( The Torch ), for which he wrote almost all articles by himself, Franz Werfel wrote some of his best novels, e. g. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which narrates the Armenian tragedy of 1915, and after Franz Kafka's death, his life-time friend Max Brod began to publish Kafka's unfinished novels.

* inland waterway ports: Vukovar ( on Danube ), Sisak ( on Sava ), Slavonski Brod ( Sava river ), Zupanja ( Sava river ), Osijek ( Drava river )

" After deciding to lodge in a good hotel in Slavonski Brod on the border, having judged it safer than Bosanski Brod across the Sava River, they were observed by an officer who saw their sketches and concluded they might be Russian spies.

Prince Charles, in pursuit of the king, marched by Jihlava and Teutsch ( Deutsch ) Brod on Kutná Hora, and on 17 May was fought the Battle of Chotusitz, in which after a severe struggle the king was victorious.

Hrabal took private classes in Latin for a year, passing a state exam in the town of Český Brod with an ' adequate ' grade on 3 October 1935.

The Brod Fortress from the Baroque period, was constructed during the Austro-Hungarian Empire to serve as a stronghold against the Ottoman Empire, which was situated on the other bank of the Sava river.

Before his death, Franz Kafka wrote to his friend and literary executor Max Brod: " Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters ( my own and others '), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread.

Some scenes had to be shot on private roads so that Brod could drive.

The Battle of Lipany or Lipan, also called the Battle of Česky Brod, was fought at Lipany 40 km east of Prague on 30 May 1434 and virtually ended the Hussite Wars.

Following a tense period of escalating tensions the opening shots in the incipient Bosnian conflict were fired when Serb paramilitary forces attacked Bosnian Croat villages around Capljina on 7 March 1992 and around Bosanski Brod and Bosniak town Goražde on 15 March.

These minor attacks were followed by much more serious Serb artillery attacks on Neum on 19 March and on Bosanski Brod on 24 March.

Brod died on December 20, 1968 in Tel Aviv.

Brod first met Kafka on October 23, 1902, when both were students at Charles University.

Brod had given a lecture at the German students ' hall on Arthur Schopenhauer.

From then on, Brod and Kafka met frequently, often even daily, and remained close friends until Kafka's death.

Sigismund's forces made a last stand at Německý Brod ( Deutschbrod ) on 10 January, but the city was stormed by the Czechs, and contrary to Žižka's orders, its defenders were put to the sword.

He took possession of the town of Kutná Hora but was decisively defeated by Jan Žižka at the Battle of Deutschbrod ( Německý Brod ) on 6 January 1422.

In the beginning of 1099, Coloman allied himself with his cousins, Duke Svatopluk of Moravia and Duke Otto II of Olomouc against Duke Břetislav II of Bohemia, but he had a meeting, on 29 May, with Břetislav II on the so-called Lucko Field ( near present Uherský Brod ) where they made a peace.