Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
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The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (Croatian: Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; Hungarian: Horvát-Szlavónia 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 belonged to the Hungarian part of the Monarchy and included parts of present-day Croatia and Serbia.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 (24.5%)
- German: 133,418
- Hungarian: 105,047
- Slovak: 20,884
- other
