Setting the borders

Neither the chain of fortresses and watchtowers erected at the border with the Ottoman Empire at that time, nor the organization of new captaincies in the 16th century could stop the Turkish devastation. Thus, the building commission appointed by the Royal War Council in Graz in 1578 to choose a place for the future fortress (whose function would be to stop the advancement of the Ottomans into the territory of the Habsburg Monarchy) confirmed in its report there was ‘’no other more suitable place than precisely the one under Dubovac’’.