Pakrac

Pakrac is a metropolis in western Slavonia, Croatia, population four,842, overall municipality populace 8,460. Pakrac is positioned on the road and railroad connecting the areas of Posavina and Podravina. The town became first referred to in 1237. It became captured with the aid of the Ottoman Empire in 1543. It turned into to start with a kaza centre within the Sanjak of Pojega among 1543 and 1552, then within the Sanjak of Pakrac in the Rumelia Eyalet between 1552 and 1559. Later it become the centre of the Sanjak of Pakrac among 1559 and 1601, when the sanjak seat was moved to Cernik.

The Ottoman rule in Pakrac lasted till the Austrians captured it in 1691. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pakrac changed into part of the Pozega County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Major ethnic cleansing events have been executed in the Yugoslav wars of the Nineties - the Serbian Krajina occupied the town, however when it become retaken most people Serbian population turned into despatched away.