Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

Croatia-Slavonia within the Austria-Hungary (number 17)

Croatia-Slavonia within the Kingdom of Hungary

Croatia-Slavonia (pink) within the Triune Kingdom of Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia (1868-1918) in pink and red

The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (Croatian: Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; Hungarian: Horvát-Szlavón Királyság; Serbian: Краљевина Хрватска и Славонија or Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; German: Königreich Kroatien und Slawonien) was an autonomous kingdom within Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It was autonomous part of the Hungarian part of the Monarchy and included parts of present-day Croatia and Serbia (eastern part of Syrmia).

History

The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was created in 1868, when the former kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia were joined into one single kingdom. The kingdom existed until 1918 when it joined the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which together with the Kingdom of Serbia formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The new Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom was divided into counties between 1918 and 1922 and into oblasts between 1922 and 1929. With the formation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, most of the territory of the former Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia became a part of the Sava Banate.

Counties

The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was divided into eight counties or comitatus (with county seats in parentheses):

• Bjelovar-Križevci (Bjelovar)
• Lika-Krbava (Gospić)
• Modruš-Rijeka (Ogulin)
• Požega (Požega)
• Syrmia (Vukovar)
• Varaždin (Varaždin)
• Virovitica (Osijek)
• Zagreb (Zagreb)

Demographics

At the 1910 census, the population of the Kingdom numbered 2,621,954 people and included speakers of the following languages:

• Croatian: 1,638,354 (62.5%)
• Serbian: 644,955 (24.6%)
• German: 133,418
• Hungarian: 105,047
• Slovak: 20,884
• other

See also

• Kingdom of Croatia
• Kingdom of Slavonia
• Croatia in the Habsburg Empire

External links

• Map
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• Ethnic map

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