1. Danica Pinterović, Nepoznata
Slavonija (Unknown Slavonia),
Osječki zbornik (Osijek Anthology),
Volume XIV-XV, Osijek 1973/75, page 124.
2. Augustin Žugaj, Terenske
napomene (Field Notes), manuscript,
author's archive
3. Valerija Damevski, Marcel Gorenc and
Zorica Džaić, Antički
lokaliteti u Benkovcu i Cagama (Ancient
Localities in Benkovac and Cage),
exhibition catalogue, 1987
4. Luka Ilić Oriovčanin,
Lovorika gradiškoga narodnoga
graničarskoga puka (Laurels of the
People of the Gradiška regimental
district) No. 8, page 81, Zagreb 1874.
Luka Ilić Oriovčanin outlines
in his book that the stone statue
representing a Roman house god was sent
to Vienna by a Military Border officer,
Colonel Milutinović. He also says
that apart from this statue a marble
statue representing a house god (Lar) was
also found. This statue ended up in a
Budapest museum through the mediation of
an Orthodox priest, Doić and
bishop of Pakrac, Hranislav.
5. Josip Butorac, Plemičke obitelji i
njihovi posjedi ili gospoštije u
požeškom kraju od XIII-XVI
stoljeća (Noble Families and their
Estates or Landed Properties in the
Požega district from the
Thirteenth to the Sixteenth centuries),
Požeški zbornik
(Požega Anthology), Slavonska
Požega, 1984.
6. Vjekoslav Žugaj, Terensko
izvešće 1984.g. (Field
Research Report), 1984, manuscript. I
visited this area as an employee of the
National Museum in Nova Gradiška.
The purpose of my visit was to collect
information for the exhibition - Middle
Age Fortifications in Nova
Gradiška District.
7. Georg Heller, Comitatus Poseganensis,
Munich, 1975.
8. Evlija Čelebi, the Turkish travel
writer provides interestina information
on Bijela Stijena. In his work Travel
Records he says: "This Croatian
fortification was conquered by Kasim-Beg
in 1544. He came there with his army from
Osijek which had already been conquered".
Bijela Stijena was later a military
centre for the Turkish army too as it had
a permanent garrison of 170 soldiers, one
mosque and a large cereal store-house.
Page 234, Sarajevo 1979.
9. Josip Butorac, Župe arhidakonata
Since u XVIII vijeku (The Parishes of the
Archdeaconry of Since in the Eighteenth
Century), page 217.
10. Lelja Dobronić, Viteški
redovi - templari i ivanovci u Hrvatskoj
(The Knight Orders - Templars and
Ivanovci in Croatia), 1984, page 54.
11. Before such stations were
established, the pilgrims had a very hard
time when passing through this area. The
canon Raimun des Agiles wrote about it in
his travel-record: About the Suffering of
the French Army in Slavonia: "When we
entered Slavonia we suffered great
losses, mostly because of the cold.
Slavonia is a desert land and its
inhabitants are aggressive and they
refused to trade with us and to provide
us guides through their land".
12. I was given the data related to oral
tradtion of the local population by
Milan Vujić from Cage in 1984.
13. The name Gradiška was first
mentioned in the donation document from
1295. The document says: "Tomas's Queen
Mother and ruler of Croatia donates to
Tvrdislav and Blaž, the River Sava
port in Gradiška".
I. Smičiklas, Codex diplomatic. VII,
page 214-215. In the year 1330,
Gradiška is mentioned as a free
town - "libera villa".
14. Dr. Ive Mažuran, Turska
osvajanja u Slavoniji 1526-1552 (Turkish
Conquests in Slavonia from 1526 to 1552),
Osječki zbornik (Osijek Anthology)
No. VI, Osijek 1958, page 94-101
15. Stjepan Pavičić,
Podrijetlo hrvatskih i srpskih naselja i
govora u Slavoniji (The Origin of
Croatian and Serbian Settlements and
Dialects in Slavonia), page 178, Zagreb
1953
16. L.I.Oriovčanin, page 79. In 1852,
L.I.Oriovčanin was appointed to the
position of military chaplain in the Nova
Gradiška regiment. When writing
about the history of Stara
Gradiška, he used data from the
military archives that were later destroyed,
probably during the riots and burning of public
buildings in Nova Gradiška in 1918.
Later in his text about the history of
Stara Gradiška, he mentions the
severe resistance of the Croatian
defenders in 1535. The Turks completely
demolished this wooden fortress during
their siege. For a short time in 1537,
the defenders succeeded in regaining
their position when, according to
Oriovčanin, the Gradiška
ruins were again in hands of soldiers and
refugees under the command of Captain
Grgić. Wooden palisades were
reconstructed then, arranged in two
columns and reinforced with packed earth.
As this fortress had great strategic
significance, the Turks conquered it
again and the battle for the fortress
started in 1553 when it was besieged by
the Mayor of Sisak, Petar Erdedy, and
Marko Tomašević with his
Slavonians. Kraljeva Velika was liberated
and for a short time Gradiška was
taken over and burnt so as to discourage
the return of the Turkish formations. In
1600, the fortification was conquered and
burnt again by Marko Lapsanović
and his army.
17. I. Mažuran, page 99
18. E. Čelebi, page 219
19. L.I. Oriovčanin, page 79
20. S. Pavičić, page 178
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