Hungary · 17th century
Novi Zrin (Hungarian: Zrínyiújvár or Új-Zrínyivár) was a fortress of the Zrinski (Zrínyi in Hungarian) noble family built near the Donja Dubrava village in the northernmost part of Croatia (at the border village of Őrtilos in Hungary) on the mouth of river Mura into Drava between 1661 and 1664.
Its purpose was to prevent the Ottoman military forces from advancing 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 7 July 1664.
Text adapted from “Novi Zrin” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novi Zrin ranks #3,686 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #18 of the 135 mapped in Hungary. Founded 1661, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,078 times in the last 60 days, more than 52% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Zagreb, 90 km away. See how Hungary compares in the castle statistics.
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