Slavonia is the eastern part of the continental Croatia located to the north of Bosnia
and Herzegovina and on the south of Hungary, next to the Danube River, inhabited
since the ancient times. Slavonia has good potentials for the ecological agriculture due
to its traffic isolation and the lack of heavy and chemical industries.
and Herzegovina and on the south of Hungary, next to the Danube River, inhabited
since the ancient times. Slavonia has good potentials for the ecological agriculture due
to its traffic isolation and the lack of heavy and chemical industries.
Pozega basin
The Pozega basin is not only the nature but also people. It is confirmed since the ancient times until now. At all times inhabitants of the Pozega basin had known to appreciate and use its natural advantages.
The most various geological changes gradually formed the environment of the Pozega basin with its mounts and extremely convenient potentials for the human life.
At this space the man had lived, worked and changed the nature. The archaeological founds shows that the Pozega basin was the favorite habitat of Ilirs, Celts, Romans, Slavs and other people.
The Pozega basin is bounded with the mounts Psunj (984 m) on the west, Papuk (953 m) and Krndija (792 m) on the north and northeast, Pozega hill (616 m) and Dilj hill (495 m) on the south, all of them divided with Orljava valley. It is the only way out from the Pozega basin to Posavina.
The hill-sides of the Pozega basin turn into the waved plain, the bottom of the Pozega basin. It has an ellipse shape length about 40 km from the east to the west and width about 20 km from the north to the south.
Slavonia on the map
