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The Modruš-Rijeka County (Croatian: Modruško-riječka županija; Hungarian: Modrus-Fiume vármegye) was a historic administrative subdivision (županija) of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Transleithania), the Hungarian part of the dual Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its territory is presently in western Croatia. Modruš is a small town near Ogulin; Rijeka is a large city on the Adriatic coast. However, Rijeka was not part of the Modruš-Rijeka County, but under the direct administration of Hungary. The capital of the county was Ogulin.
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The Modruš-Rijeka County shared borders with the Austrian lands Istria, Carniola and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the counties of Zagreb and Lika-Krbava (both in Croatia-Slavonia). The county had a strip of Adriatic Sea coast. Its area was 4879 km² around 1910.
The territory of the County was part of the Kingdom of Croatia when it entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary in 1102, and with it became part of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1526. The County was created in the late 18th century. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the county became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). Since 1991, when Croatia became independent from Yugoslavia, the county is part of Croatia.
In 1910, the population of the county was 231,654.
Population by language (1910 census):[1]
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Modruš-Rijeka county were:[2]
| Districts | |
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| District | Capital |
| Čabar | Čabar |
| Cirkvenica | Crikvenica |
| Delnice | Delnice |
| Ogulin | Ogulin |
| Sušak | Bakar |
| Szluin | Slunj |
| Vojnić | Vojnić |
| Vrbovsko | Vrbovsko |
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