The treatise on Brežice during the Middle Ages, originating more on the basis of the treatment of archival sources than on the baisis of the literature represents the history through several centuries of the Slovene land of Brežice — of the town and the country — near the Croatian frontier. The owners of the domain were the archbishops of Salzburg (till 1479), the Habsburgs (till 1586), the Gals (till 1644), the Frankopans (till 1694) and then the Attemses. Periods of rises were exchanged by times of desolations (about the year 1100, during the second half of the 13th century, during the second half of the 15th century). The reasons for the desolation were the unquiet frontier, the too big demands of the subjects on the part of the castle and the inundations of the river Sava. During the first Slovene peasant revolt about 9000 rebels assembled near Brežice, never before have such crowds met on Slovene territory and later during the second half of the 19th century on open-air meetings (tabori). During the 16th century fugitives from the Croat side settlet In great numbers on the land of Brežice. In the year 1526 the gate to the east was opened winder for Breilee. Since 1506 the town has not had the same master as the domain any more, the townspeople themselves decided more on it.