- Stara Gradiška
Stara Gradiška is a village and a municipality in the
Brod-Posavina county ofCroatia . 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, acrossBosanska Gradiška inBosnia 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 , theUstaša regime set up theStara 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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