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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROD , a See also:

town of Croatia-Slavonia, in the See also:county of Pokega, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Save, 124 M. by See also:rail S. E. by E. of See also:Agram. Pop. (1900) 7310. The See also:principal Bosnian railway here crosses the river, to meet the Hungarian See also:system. Brod has thus a considerable transit See also:trade, especially in cereals, See also:wine, See also:spirits, prunes and See also:wood. It is sometimes called Slavonisch-Brod, to distinguish it from Bosna-Brod, or Bosnisch-Brod, across the river. The town owes its name to a See also:ford (Servian brad) of the Save, and See also:dates at least from the 15th See also:century. Brod was frequently captured and recaptured in the See also:wars between See also:Turkey and See also:Austria; and it was here that the See also:Austrian See also:army mustered, in 1879, for the occupation of Bosnia.

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