Virovitica County

Virovitica County (Croatian: Virovitička županija; Hungarian: Verőce 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 eastern Croatia. The name of the county comes from the town of Virovitica. The capital of the county moved from Virovitica to Osijek in the late 18th century

Geography

Virovitica County shared borders with the Hungarian counties of Somogy, Baranya (Baranja), Bács-Bodrog, and the Croatian-Slavonian counties of Srijem, Požega and Bjelovar-Križevci. The county stretched along the right (southern) bank of the river Drava, down to its confluence with the river Danube. Its area was 4867 km² around 1910.

History

The territory of Virovitica County was part of the Kingdom of Croatia when it entered into personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary in 1102, and with it became part of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1526. The County was re-established in 1718, after it was retaken from Ottoman rule. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the county became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). Since 1991, when Croatia became independent from Yugoslavia, the county is part of Croatia.

Demographics

In 1910, the population of the county was 272,430.

Population by language (1910 census):

• Croatian = 137,394
• Serbian = 46,658
• German = 40,766
• Hungarian = 37,656
• Slovak = 3,691

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Verőce county were: