SISSEK (Hungarian, Sziszek; Croatian, Sisak)

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SISSEK (Hungarian, Sziszek; Croatian, Sisak) , a town of Croatia-Slavonia, in the county of Agram; situated at the confluence of the Save and Kulpa, 3o in. by rail S.E. by S. of Agram. Pop. (1900) 7047. Sissek has a considerable trade in

grain

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

and timber. Its only noteworthy building is an ancient castle, constructed of brick.
As the vestiges of its Roman walls tend to prove, Sissek was a large and flourishing city under Roman

rule

RULE

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

made it
a military station; Tiberius

chose

CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

it as his headquarters against the Pannonian rebels; and from Septimius Severus, who made it the centre of a military government, it gained the name of Septimia Sissia. A

Segesta

SEGESTA (Gr. "Eyeara)

, on the Save, is mentioned by Appian, and Strabo distinguishes between this town and the neighbouring Siscia. It seems likely, as St Aymour suggests, that two towns, the native

Segesta

SEGESTA (Gr. "Eyeara)

and the Roman fortress called by Strabo i) Dhriaa 4po6piov, ultimately united under the single name of Siscia. In the 3rd century, under Gallienus and Probus, the city contained the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

imperial mint and treasury; and an engraved coffer, found in Croatia, dating from the 4th century, and representing the five foremost cities of the Empire, includes Siscia along with Rome, Byzantium, Carthage and

Nicomedia

NICOMEDIA [mod. Ismid]

. Its bishopric was removed to Salona, in 441, when Attila appeared, and thenceforward the city declined. For a brief 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

Magyars

MAGYARS

, and in 1092 its territories were bestowed upon the

cathedral

CATHEDRAL

chapter of Agram by Ladislaus I., king of

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

. Under the walls of its castle, built by this chapter in 1544, the Turks were thrice defeated in 1593. At a fourth venture the city fell, only to be evacuated in 1594. It witnessed a final Turkish defeat in 1641.
See C. de St Aymour, Les Pays sad-slaves de l'Autriche-Hongrie (1883), ch. ii.

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