BROD  , a

town of Croatia-Slavonia, in the county of Pokega, on the left bank of the river Save, 124 M. by rail S . E. by E. of Agram . Pop . (1900) 7310 . The principal Bosnian railway here crosses the river, to meet the Hungarian system . Brod has thus a considerable transit trade, especially in cereals, wine, spirits, prunes and wood . It is sometimes called Slavonisch-Brod, to distinguish it from Bosna-Brod, or Bosnisch-Brod, across the river . The town owes its name to a ford (Servian brad) of the Save, and dates at least from the 15th century . Brod was frequently captured and recaptured in the wars between Turkey and Austria; and it was here that the Austrian army mustered, in 1879, for the occupation of Bosnia .