Stara Gradiška
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Stara Gradiška
Stara Gradiška (Croatia)
Stara Gradiška is a village and a municipality in the Brod-Posavina county of Croatia. It has 542 residents, while the municipality has 1,717 (2001), in six other smaller villages. It is located on the left bank of the river Sava, across Bosanska Gradiška in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The first word in the name means Old, and there's also a New Gradiška nearby, the city of Nova Gradiška.
During World War II, the Ustaša regime set up the Stara Gradiška concentration camp there as part of the Jasenovac complex.
In period of 1945 until 1990 in Stara Gradiška was located most famous prison for political prisoners.
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