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SISSEK (Hungarian, Sziszek; Croatian, Sisak) , a See also:town of Croatia-Slavonia, in the See also:county of See also:Agram; situated at the confluence of the See also:Save and Kulpa, 3o in. by See also:rail S.E. by S. of Agram. Pop. (1900) 7047. Sissek has a considerable See also:trade in See also:grain and See also:timber. Its only noteworthy See also:building is an See also:ancient See also:castle, constructed of See also:brick. As the vestiges of its See also:Roman walls tend to prove, Sissek was a large and flourishing See also:city under Roman See also:rule. See also:Augustus made it a military station; Tiberius See also:chose it as his headquarters against the Pannonian rebels; and from Septimius See also:Severus, who made it the centre of a military See also:government, it gained the name of Septimia Sissia. A See also:Segesta, on the Save, is mentioned by See also:Appian, and See also:Strabo distinguishes between this town and the neighbouring Siscia. It seems likely, as St Aymour suggests, that two towns, the native Segesta and the Roman fortress called by Strabo i) Dhriaa 4po6piov, ultimately See also:united under the single name of Siscia. In the 3rd See also:century, under See also:Gallienus and See also:Probus, the city contained the See also:chief imperial See also:mint and See also:treasury; and an engraved See also:coffer, found in Croatia, dating from the 4th century, and representing the five foremost cities of the See also:Empire, includes Siscia along with See also:Rome, See also:Byzantium, See also:Carthage and See also:Nicomedia. Its bishopric was removed to Salona, in 441, when See also:Attila appeared, and thenceforward the city declined. For a brief See also:period, in the 7th and 8th centuries, the conquering Slays made it one of their Zupanates, or governments; but in the loth century it was sacked by the See also:Magyars, and in 1092 its territories were bestowed upon the See also:cathedral See also:chapter of Agram by See also:Ladislaus I., See also:king of See also:Hungary.

Under the walls of its castle, built by this chapter in 1544, the See also:

Turks were thrice defeated in 1593. At a See also:fourth venture the city See also:fell, only to be evacuated in 1594. It witnessed a final See also:Turkish defeat in 1641. See C. de St Aymour, See also:Les Pays sad-slaves de l'Autriche-Hongrie (1883), ch. ii.

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