Luka Ibrišimović

However, through a combination of influence on his powerful friends among Ottoman officials as well as bribery, he managed to get out of the dungeon and thus avoided being impaled on a stake.

[4] He maintained live correspondences with external parties in Varaždin and Zagreb, informing them in his letters about Ottoman preparations in the region for the 1683 Vienna Campaign.

[4] In 1684, after The Great Turkish War was launched, Ibrišimović's confidant Hrelja was captured by the Ottomans while smuggling information to the Christian troops.

[7] Local women were purported to have also taken part in the battle by throwing rocks on the heads of Ottoman soldiers as they were passing through narrow ravines and attacking them using sickles, scythes and pitchforks.

[7] Later in the same year, as another Ottoman army crossed the Sava into Slavonia, Ibrišimović and his men barricaded themselves in a fortified Franciscan monastery in Velika.