The town of Pakrac is located in the Požega-Slavonia county, across a total area of 350 km2. It includes 42 communities with a total of 8855 inhabitants. Pakrac is extremely well-connected to larger trade centers by roads and railways, and is located only 20 km from the exit to the Zagreb-Lipovac highway.
Pakrac in the Past
The first, indirect reference to the name PAKRAC dates back to 1229, in a nobleman's epithet, Marcel Pakrački, although some archeological finds indicate that the area was inhabited back in the antiquity. The Templar (Catholic religious knight order) writings mention the Pakrac fortress from the 12th century, built in the shape of an uneven pentagon, with seven towers, surrounded by walls. The first mint which produced the coin moneta banalis - banovac, is also mentioned with respect to that period. In the 17th century, after 150 years of Turkish rule, Pakrac got its first owners. Of these, the Janković family had the greatest influence on its development. This family also built their own manor. In the same century, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built, the town underwent further development, becoming a center of trade and crafts, and subsequently various buildings including a hospital, school, railway, hotel, court and private power plant were built. World Wars I and II, and particularly the Serbian aggression against the town and its inhabitants in 1991, slowed down the development and destroyed part of the cultural heritage of Pakrac.
Today, thanks to its position at the intersection of important traffic routes, Pakrac is again becoming the administrative, trade, healthcare, educational and crafts center of Western Slavonia.
