Lipik

Lipik is a town in western Slavonia, in the Pozega-Slavonia County of northeastern Croatia. The settlements protected in the administrative location of Lipik includ. Lipik became occupied with the aid of Ottoman forces along with several different cities in Slavonia until its liberation in 1691. In 1773, the nice and cozy waters of Lipik had been defined favorably via a Varazdin medical doctor. It persevered for use as a remedy spa for over a century, and in 1872, the primary hotel was opened inside the metropolis. By 1920 the quantity of lodges grew to 6. Spa treatment remains the important cognizance of financial system for the metropolis.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Lipik changed into part of the Pozega County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Lipik also hosts a Lipizzan strong that have been constructed in 1843 beneath the Habsburg Monarchy. It had formerly enjoyed state popularity in Yugoslavia between 1938 and the 1950s, whilst it become closed in prefer of the stable in Lipica, Slovenia. It was reopened in 1981, however then at some point of the Croatian War of Independence the horses were evacuated and taken to Novi Sad, Serbia, where they remained till their negotiated go back in 2007.