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Sisak and Moslavina County

The Sisak and Moslavina county is abundant in woods and fertile land, criss-crossed with brooks and rivers and it includes a part of central Croatia south-east of Zagreb and borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The county's micro-regions are: the hilly and wooded Banovina and the low-lying Moslavina, the fertile Posavina, Pokuplje and Pounje.

The natural resources are oil and gas reserves, navigable rivers with a large number of ecologically clean affluents. Among the natural beauties are also the nature park and the natural reservation Lonjsko polje with some 236-bird species, of them some 130 nesting brids, some of them on the list of endangered birds' species.

The region also boosts the main spawning basins of the Sava river, particularly for wild carp. The traditional architecture, preserved until the present times, has blended well with the surroundings - the old Podravina house made of oak.

Archaeological sites indicate that in the Sisak area, some four centuries before Christ, the Celtic city Segestica was situated. It was conquered by the Romans who built a new city - Siscia. With the arrival of the Croats in the 7th century, Siscia was the centre of Panonian Croatia for a while, while during the Turks conquering the region, the Vojna krajina region directly ruled by the ruler - ban was established. From there derives the name of the region - Banovina. Turkish conquests to the north and west were stopped during the battle of 1593, while the fort named Stari grad that was never conquered, represents a cultural monument of the highest category. Numerous installations and churches derive from the 17th and 18th century, including the baroque Marija Magdalena church near Sisak.