BROD, a rural town of Yugoslavia, on the left bank of the river Sava. Pop. (1931) 13,788. The railway from Zagreb to Bel grade crosses the river here; and Brod is the junction for the prin cipal Bosnian line, to Sarajevo, Mostar and the Adriatic. Its slight economic value will be increased when the tunnelling which is to replace the funicular section has been completed. Brod has a con siderable transit trade in cereals, wines, spirits, prunes and wood. Its chief industries are plum-growing and pig-rearing. It has also a distillery and Government showrooms for agricultural imple ments. It is sometimes called Brod na Savi to distinguish it from Basanski Brod across the river. The town owes its name to a ford (Serbian brod) of the Sava, and dates at least from the century. Brod was frequently captured and recaptured in the wars between Turkey and Austria; and it was here that the Austrian army mustered in 1870 for the occupation of Bosnia.