The Ottomans also faced defeats during battles such as the Battle of Sisak.

During the Roman Empire when Sisak was known as Siscia, Christian martyr Quirinus of Sescia was tortured and nearly killed during Diocletian's persecution of Christians.

According to the Royal Frankish Annals ( 821-822 ), the rebellious Duke of Pannonia Ljudevit Posavski fled, during the Frankish invasion, from his seat in Sisak to the Serbs in western Bosnia, who controlled a great part of Dalmatia (" Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur ").

As allies of the Roman Empire, the tribes provided support to Emperor Augustus during the siege of Siscia, ( today's Sisak ), and in year 35, Iassi were granted local autonomy known as Res Publica Iasorum.

The fatal Cavalry charge by Hasan Predojević, during the Battle of Sisak in 1593.

According to the Royal Frankish Annals ( 822 ), Pannonian Duke Ljudevit fled his seat in Sisak to the Serbs ( during the rule of Radoslav or his son Prosigoj ) who controlled a great part of Dalmatia (" Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur ").

His entourage was sent to Sisak, and was charged with conspiracy to overthrow the newly formed Croatian state.

Ottoman advances in the Croatian territory continued until the 1593 Battle of Sisak, the first decisive Ottoman defeat, and a more lasting stabilisation of the frontier.

Sisak is located at the confluence of the Kupa, Sava, and Odra rivers, southeast of the Croatian capital Zagreb.

While Sisak remained within Croatian hands, the territory immediately south of the city was controlled by Serbs.

Sisak features the largest Croatian metallurgic factory and the largest oil refinery in Croatia

Today, Sisak features the largest Croatian metallurgic factory ( supported by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Metallurgy also in the city ) and the largest oil refinery.

After almost two hundred years of Croatian resistance against the Ottoman Empire, the victory in the Battle of Sisak marked the end of Ottoman rule and the Hundred Years ' Croatian-Ottoman War.

A year later he became the conductor of the Danica Choir in the Croatian city of Sisak.

The first Partisan uprising occurred in Croatia on 22 June 1941, when forty Croatian Communists staged an uprising in the Brezovica woods between Sisak and Zagreb.

As the Battle of Sisak took place on Croatian territory and the main body of the Christian defenders consisted of Croatian troops, the victory has ever since played a major role in the traditional interpretation of the history of Croatia.

* Croatian Hussar at Sisak

In the first phase, the Croatian portion of the Adria pipeline will be reconstructed from the Sisak pumping station to Omišalj harbour.

During World War II, Sisak was the site of the Sisak Children's Concentration Camp which was part of the large Jasenovac cluster.

Another revolt of Janissaries led to his dismissal in 1591, but in 1593 he was again recalled to become grand vizier for the third time, and in the same year he commanded the Ottoman army in the Long War against the Habsburgs ( see Battle of Sisak ).

Whichever way one looks at it, whether it is seen as a major victory of Christian defenders over Islamic aggressors, or a bloody, yet minor combat between neighbouring provinces, the Battle of Sisak was the prelude to the long Second Ottoman-Habsburg War, and both empires experienced six more of such wars until 1791: 1592 – 1606, 1660 – 1664, 1683 – 1699, 1716 – 1718, 1737 – 1739 and 1788 – 1791.

Sisak is the starting point for sightseeing tours into Lonjsko Polje ( Field of Lonja river ) nature park.

The base was used from November 1991 to 1992 as a prison camp that housed JNA soldiers, Serb volunteers, mainly from Sisak, and civilians, including women.

The Ottoman army was successfully repelled for the first time on the territory of Croatia following the battle of Sisak in 1593.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

Possibly by building a new high capacity connection line from Sisak via Kutina to Lipovljani.

A motorway connection of Zagreb to the important industrial city of Sisak is planned to be constructed as A11.

The most upstream port is in Sisak.

There are of crude oil pipelines in Croatia, connecting the Port of Rijeka oil terminal with refineries in Rijeka and Sisak, as well as several transhipment terminals.

Julianus minted coins from the mint at Siscia ( Sisak, Croatia ) declaring himself as Emperor and promising freedom.

* 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.

In 1907 he moved out of the rural environment and started working as a machinist's apprentice in Sisak.

The Carniolan noblemen's army thus defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Sisak of 1593, marking the end of the immediate Ottoman threat to the Slovene Lands, although sporadic Ottoman incursions continued well into the 17th century.

** WWII: The First Sisak Partisan Brigade, the first anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe, is founded by partisans near Sisak, Croatia.

* June 22 – Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.

* Pannonia is attacked by Octavian Caesar ; who conquered and sacked the stronghold Siscia ( Sisak ) of the Segestani, which is taken after a 30-day siege.

Wilten, near Innsbruck ), from which branched off the road into Noricum, leading by Virunum ( Klagenfurt ) to Laurieum ( Lorch ) on the Danube, the road into Pannonia, leading to Aemona ( Ljubljana ) and Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica ), the road to Tarsatica ( near Fiume, now Rijeka ) and Siscia ( Sisak ), and that to Tergeste ( Trieste ) and the Istrian coast.

The most famous spa towns in Croatia are Daruvar, Šibenik and Sisak.

The Pannonians first came into contact with the Roman Republic in 35 BC, when the Romans conquered Segestica, or modern-day Sisak.

Lessening hostilities brought about a five-year truce in 1547 and temporary stabilization of the border between Habsburg and Ottoman empires, with Virovitica becoming the most significant defensive Habsburg fortress and Požega the most significant Ottoman centre in Slavonia, as Ottoman advances to Sisak and Čazma were made, including a brief occupation of the cities.

The death of Hasan Predojević the Požega Sanjak Bey in the Battle of Sisak in 1593, marked the first Ottoman defeat in Europe, and after years of steady decline, Ottoman rule grew weaker until Požega was finally liberated on 12 March 1688 by citizens led by friar Luka Ibrišimović.

Sisak () is a city in central Croatia.