Sebelumnya, pada tahun 1591 dan 1592, Utsmaniyah mencoba merebut Benteng Sisak, tetapi gagal, tetapi mereka berhasil merebut Benteng Bihać yang strategis pada tahun 1592. Benteng Sisak kembali dikepung oleh pasukan Utsmaniyah pada tanggal 15 Juni 1593. Sementara itu, pasukan yang mempertahankan Sisak dipimpin oleh Blaž Đurak dan Matija Fintić.
12Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches.Vol.4: Vom Regierungsantritte Murad des Dritten bis zur zweyten Entthronung Mustafa des Ersten 1574–1623, Budapest: C. A. Hartleben, 1829, p. 218 and footnote with reference to the greatly differing figures in Turkish sources, e.g. Mustafa Naima,Tarichi Naima (i.e. "Naima's History"), Constantinople 1734, vol.I, p. 43 f. (Annals of the Turkish Empire: from 1591 to 1659. Transl. Charles Fraser. London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1832), and Austrian sources, e.g. Franz Christoph von Khevenhüller (1588–1650), Annales Ferdinandei, Leipzig: Weidmann 1721–1726, vol. IV, p. 1093.
12Ive Mažuran: Povijest Hrvatske od 15. stoljeća do 18. stoljeća, p. 146
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