Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац) is a city and municipality located in Serbia at 44.76° North, 19.69° East along the Sava river in the historic region of Mačva. It is the administrative center of the Mačva District of Serbia. The city has a population of 55,163 (2002), while population of the municipality is 122,893. It gained city rights in 2007 by the decision of the National Assembly of Serbia.
The first settlement on the current location of Ša...
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Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац) is a city and municipality located in Serbia at 44.76° North, 19.69° East along the Sava river in the historic region of Mačva. It is the administrative center of the Mačva District of Serbia. The city has a population of 55,163 (2002), while population of the municipality is 122,893. It gained city rights in 2007 by the decision of the National Assembly of Serbia.
The first settlement on the current location of Šabac dates from the Middle Ages, a document from 1454 records a town called Zaslon. It was part of the Slavic Serbian state until it fell to the Ottoman Empire(Turchish). In 1470 the Turks built the first fortress in the town and named it Bejerdelen (Böğürdelen) (translation: "that which strikes from the side"). In 1476 the Hungarian king Matthias occupied the fort and it remained under Hungarian rule till 1521. The fort passed from Ottoman to Austrian rule several times later as it was on a fairly important geostrategic position. The border...
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