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13.10.2004 17:55:42
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11-19 век;
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Июнь (или июль) 1593 года (словенцы считают её и своей победой тоже)
In the 14th century Sisak was a parish centre and in 1470 it had its statute. In the 16th century it became a military and strategical stronghold in the war against the Turks, especially after the fort was built at the mouth of the Kupa riner. In the fabolous battle near the fort on 22. June 1593 the Turks suffered defeat that gave Sisak the European epithet "antemurale christianitatis".
Great victory of Croat and Christian armies over Turks in the Sisak battle, July the 22nd. Near the border city of Sisak, 5,000 Croats under the command of Croatian ban Toma Erdody, aided by Slovenian reinforcements from Carinthia and Styria, have broken the Turkish surround of circa 12,000 men and pushed them towards the Kupa river, constantly pounding them with heavy artillery fire. Caught in the middle between two Christian army flanks, Turks panicked and started a chaotic retreat. Having disintegrated under the unending cannonade, the bulk of the army (circa 10,000 men, with all the chief commanders) drowned in the Kupa river. Christian losses numbered between 40-50 men. Although this battle was the ouverture to the so-called "Long war" (1593.-1606.), it marked, along with the Siget (1566.) and the Lepant (1571.) battles, the change of war fortune in the Ottoman-European wars.