Sisak
05-31-2013, 12:28 AM
The city was known as Marsonia in the Roman Empire, and as Brod na Savi 1244–1934. City is located in the region of Slavonia.
'Brod' is the word 'ship' in modern Croatian, the city's name bears witness to an older meaning - 'water crossing', 'ford'. It is still disputed whether Marsonia was a postal station, lodging for the night or an actual settlement.
The northeastern part of the city, at Galovo, recently revealed a rich deposit of the Starčevo culture, dating in the Early Stone Age. Besides the fact that this is the largest architectural finding in Northern Croatia, it confirms that the locality of Brod has been inhabited for at least 8,000 years.
The aforementioned Peutinger's table clearly shows that Marsonia initially existed next to the Sava river, at the place where the Roman road crossed the river. The first Croatian expert, claiming that the Roman MARSVNNIA was located where Brod is now is Matija Petar Katancic, giving this assertion additional support. The Ottoman Empire's influence remains dominant until the territorial gains by Austria-Hungary.
rom 1941 to 1945 the city was part of the Independent State of Croatia. The town was heavily bombed by the Allies in 1944 and 1945. The bombing resulted in damage to 80% of the buildings in Slavonski Brod.
Slavonski Brod is also home to some of the most important metal companies in Southeastern Europe, the Djuro Djakovic consortium. 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. It is in the Vauban style.he city's Franciscan monastery dates from the 18th century, and is also Baroque in style, with exceptional architecture, especially of the church yard, and monastery church interior, with its beautiful altar and paintings. In 1720, a faculty of philosophy was opened here.
Slavonski Brod - Cravaten Statt
In the French army in 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII, there was a cavalry composed of the Croats, called Royal – Cravate, which existed in the period of 1664-1789. These soldiers gave the world something that is today unavoidable in fashion: the tie, called la cravate by the French and die Krawatte by the Germans. The expression was coined from the Croatian name, and mentioned for the first time in 1651. On historical map of the Habsburg Monarchy dated in 1697, a part of Slavonski Brod, today the centre of the city – The Square of Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic and the surrounding area – was given name in the German language Cravatten Statt. The map was prepared by Nikola Sparr de Bensdorf from the Netherlands, and is kept in the Military Archives in Vienna.
Notes from history about Cravat
Baron Trenck (1711-1749) was probably the most famous Croatian soldier who took part in the war of the Austrian Succession. He was the head of a regiment of Pandours recruited largely from Slavonia. His Memoirs of the Illustrious Francis Bacon Trenk were first printed in German and then translated into English (London, 1747).
French King Louis XIV had his cravatier du roi. Cravatier du roi had a very serious and important duty in the state administration: to offer the King a basket full of finest cravats every morning! [Gregory Peroche: Croatie - France 797-1997; Douze siècles d'histoire].
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Franciscan monastery
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'Brod' is the word 'ship' in modern Croatian, the city's name bears witness to an older meaning - 'water crossing', 'ford'. It is still disputed whether Marsonia was a postal station, lodging for the night or an actual settlement.
The northeastern part of the city, at Galovo, recently revealed a rich deposit of the Starčevo culture, dating in the Early Stone Age. Besides the fact that this is the largest architectural finding in Northern Croatia, it confirms that the locality of Brod has been inhabited for at least 8,000 years.
The aforementioned Peutinger's table clearly shows that Marsonia initially existed next to the Sava river, at the place where the Roman road crossed the river. The first Croatian expert, claiming that the Roman MARSVNNIA was located where Brod is now is Matija Petar Katancic, giving this assertion additional support. The Ottoman Empire's influence remains dominant until the territorial gains by Austria-Hungary.
rom 1941 to 1945 the city was part of the Independent State of Croatia. The town was heavily bombed by the Allies in 1944 and 1945. The bombing resulted in damage to 80% of the buildings in Slavonski Brod.
Slavonski Brod is also home to some of the most important metal companies in Southeastern Europe, the Djuro Djakovic consortium. 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. It is in the Vauban style.he city's Franciscan monastery dates from the 18th century, and is also Baroque in style, with exceptional architecture, especially of the church yard, and monastery church interior, with its beautiful altar and paintings. In 1720, a faculty of philosophy was opened here.
Slavonski Brod - Cravaten Statt
In the French army in 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII, there was a cavalry composed of the Croats, called Royal – Cravate, which existed in the period of 1664-1789. These soldiers gave the world something that is today unavoidable in fashion: the tie, called la cravate by the French and die Krawatte by the Germans. The expression was coined from the Croatian name, and mentioned for the first time in 1651. On historical map of the Habsburg Monarchy dated in 1697, a part of Slavonski Brod, today the centre of the city – The Square of Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic and the surrounding area – was given name in the German language Cravatten Statt. The map was prepared by Nikola Sparr de Bensdorf from the Netherlands, and is kept in the Military Archives in Vienna.
Notes from history about Cravat
Baron Trenck (1711-1749) was probably the most famous Croatian soldier who took part in the war of the Austrian Succession. He was the head of a regiment of Pandours recruited largely from Slavonia. His Memoirs of the Illustrious Francis Bacon Trenk were first printed in German and then translated into English (London, 1747).
French King Louis XIV had his cravatier du roi. Cravatier du roi had a very serious and important duty in the state administration: to offer the King a basket full of finest cravats every morning! [Gregory Peroche: Croatie - France 797-1997; Douze siècles d'histoire].
http://i41.tinypic.com/5b92j4.gif
Franciscan monastery
http://i41.tinypic.com/2kmp14.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/333zwxf.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2wgr9jo.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/e88z01.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2nas96g.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2e1zm04.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/izb7ua.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/5odr9g.jpg