Novi Zrin

Novi Zrin was a fortress of family Zrinski (Zrínyi in Hungarian) built in the northernmost part of Croatia (at the border to Hungary) on the mouth of river Mura into Drava between 1661-1664.

Its purpose should have been to stop the Ottoman military forces to advance further into Croatia. The Ottomans attacked it several times from 1662 to 1664, but did not manage to conquer it. Finally, at the beginning of June 1664 a large Ottoman army, numbering up to 100.000 men, led personally by the Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, besieged it and destroyed on 7th July 1664.