Counties of Croatia
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The counties are primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia. In Croatian they are called županije in plural and županija in singular form.
There is a total of 20 counties and 1 city in the country.
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[edit] History
- See also: Category:Former counties of Croatia
Croatia has had counties since the Middle Ages. However, their sizes, names and positions changed with time.
The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was divided in 1867 into eight counties or comitatus.
The 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.
In socialist Yugoslavia, Socialist Republic of Croatia was divided into općine (sing. općina) which were smaller than the present counties. The designation općina has been retained for municipalities which are one level smaller than the županije and also smaller than the old općine.
The political representatives elected for county government used to form a Chamber of Counties (Županijski dom) in the Croatian Parliament, between 1993 and 2001.
Present-day counties were introduced in the 1990 Constitution of Croatia, and have only slightly changed since.
[edit] Organization
Each county has an assembly (županijska skupština) which is composed of representatives elected by popular vote, using party-list proportional representation, for four-year terms. The county assembly elects the executive county leadership, decides on the yearly budget, the county properties etc.
The leader of a county is a župan (sometimes translated as "prefect"), who has one or two deputies each called a dožupan. The župan presides over the county's executive government (županijsko poglavarstvo), and represents the county in external affairs.
[edit] List of counties
The list of counties, grouped into historic and geographic larger regions:
| County | Official name | |
| Central Croatia | ||
|---|---|---|
| Zagreb | Zagrebačka županija | |
| Krapina-Zagorje | Krapinsko-zagorska županija | |
| Sisak-Moslavina | Sisačko-moslavačka županija | |
| Karlovac | Karlovačka županija | |
| Varaždin | Varaždinska županija | |
| Koprivnica-Križevci | Koprivničko-križevačka županija | |
| Bjelovar-Bilogora | Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija | |
| Međimurje | Međimurska županija | |
| City of Zagreb | Grad Zagreb | |
| Istria, Northern seacoast and Mountainous Croatia | ||
| Primorje-Gorski Kotar | Primorsko-goranska županija | |
| Lika-Senj | Ličko-senjska županija | |
| Istria | Istarska županija | |
| Slavonia | ||
| Virovitica-Podravina | Virovitičko-podravska županija | |
| Požega-Slavonia | Požeško-slavonska županija | |
| Brod-Posavina | Brodsko-posavska županija | |
| Osijek-Baranja | Osječko-baranjska županija | |
| Vukovar-Syrmia | Vukovarsko-srijemska županija | |
| Dalmatia | ||
| Zadar | Zadarska županija | |
| Šibenik-Knin | Šibensko-kninska županija | |
| Split-Dalmatia | Splitsko-dalmatinska županija | |
| Dubrovnik-Neretva | Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija | |
[edit] Naming
The county names ending in the suffixes -čka and -ska are adjectives, with the noun županija implied, so e.g. Karlovačka's full name is Karlovačka županija. Some counties prefer to swap the order of those two words but they are in the minority (since February 7, 1997 when the order was officially changed).
[edit] Cities
Zagreb itself is grad, a city, due to its importance it has a county status and jurisdiction. Any town with population over 35,000 can take over a part of jurisdiction of its county.
[edit] References
- Hrvatske županije kroz stoljeća (Croatian Counties Across Centuries), ed. Ivo Goldstein, Zagreb, 1996
[edit] See also
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