Sirac

Sirac is a municipality in Croatia. It is placed in Bjelovar-Bilogora County. A smaller amount of cash factors to the lifestyles of Sirac, even in the Roman times, while it belonged to the province of Upper Panonian on the municipal territory of Aquae Balissae, the center of the Ibana these days the city of Daruvar. In the region of ​​modern Sirac Municipality in the Middle Ages, feudal fortifications are created: Sirac and Zeljnjak. The web site of the fortress Sirac is known as Stari Grad.

The name Sirac seems for the primary time inside the mediaeval list from 1234 as a land assets Syrionuk, placed in Toprika district. Like other vital feudal fortresses, it was recorded on the first maps of Slavonia from the 16th century. Folk way of life wrongly attributes the founding of Sirac and Benedictine monastery of St. Margarete inside the adjacent White Village with the knightly order of the Templars. The citadel in Sirac as the center of the property became built via the German ancestry of the Tiboldovic own family who became also the client of the Benedictine monastery. The parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was placed within the same name. Medieval documents confirm that 1343.