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unusual facts about Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia



Catherine of Hungary, Queen of Serbia

The efforts of Catherine's grandfather, Bela IV of Hungary to secure his southern boundary while moving toward the Adriatic included establishing leaders in Srem (John Angelos) and Slavonia (Rostislav Mikhailovich) who were not only capable but also closely connected to the royal family.

Chernozem

There are two "Chernozem belts" in the world: from eastern Croatia (Slavonia), along the Danube (northern Serbia, northern Bulgaria (Danubian Plain) and southern Romania (Wallachian Plain)), to northeast Ukraine across the Black Earth Region and southern Russia into Siberia, and the other in the Canadian Prairies.

Croatian Home Guard

Royal Croatian Home Guard (1868–1918), regular army of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Croatian local elections, 2013

In Slavonia's largest city, Osijek, mayor Krešimir Bubalo (HDSSB) won 36,3%, and faced independent (backed by SDP&...) Ivan Vrkić, who gained 27,8%, in a run-off which was won by the latter.

Demographics of Hungary

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Dusnok

Similar dialectal features are seen today among population of Gradište near Županja (in western Syrmia) and around town of Našice in central eastern Slavonia (both in northeastern Croatia).

Đuro Kurepa

Born in Majske Poljane, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, Kurepa was the youngest of Rade and Andelija Kurepa's fourteen children.

Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath

Amongst his possessions at his death was the Illyrian armorial with the arms of the families and surnames of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Dalmatia, Macedonia, Montenengro, Serbia and Slavonia from the Armorial of Stanislas Rubčić, King of Arms to Tsar Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia.

Eltz

In 1736 Archbishop Philipp Karl von Eltz had acquired the Lordship of Vukovar in eastern Slavonia (present-day Croatia) affiliated with the Hungarian nobility.

Franjo Marković

He served as a representative of the Križevci county in the Parliament of Croatia and Slavonia in the last two decades of the 19th century (at the period of ban Dragutin Károly Khuen-Héderváry).

Ivankovo

Ivankovo, Croatia, a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County of Slavonia, Croatia

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

In 1690, Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić, the Bishop of Zagreb, bought his library, along with some 7300 graphics, and moved it to Slavonia, where the collection became part of the library of the Zagreb Archbishopric, now part of the Croatian State Archives.

Kingdom of Slavonia

The Kingdom of Slavonia was mostly an agricultural land, just like Kingdom of Croatia, and it was known for its silk profuction.

The Kingdom of Slavonia was bounded on the west by Kingdom of Croatia to the west, Kingdom of Hungary on the north and the east and on the south by the Ottoman Empire.

Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana

Because of newcomers Serbs, Pope Eugene IV sent at 1438 Jakob de Marcia to Slavonia in missionary, he have task to baptized "schismatic" in "Roman religion", and if that fails, that banish them.

Nada Klaić

In 1946 Klaić got her Ph.D. with the thesis Political and Social Organization of Slavonia under the Árpád dynasty.

Ne dirajte mi ravnicu

Also the most famous of Slavonia'sTamburica band Zlatni Dukati (now Najbolji hrvatski tamburaši), makes an own version of the song.

NK Slavonac

NK Slavonac can refer to several football teams in Slavonia, Croatia.

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Parliament on Cetin

On January 6, 1527, the Slavonian nobility distanced themselves from this election and nominated John Zápolya the rival claimant to the Hungarian throne instead.

Požega

Požega County, administrative subdivision of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia from the 12th century to 1920

Queen Jelena

Helen of Zadar (also known as Helen the Glorious or Jelena Slavna), Queen consort of Kingdom of Croatia; Michael Krešimir II (946-969), later Queen dowager (969-976)

Schutzberg, Bosnia

The village of Schutzberg was founded in 1895 by a mixture of Danube Swabians and German settlers coming from Slavonia, Galicia, Bukowina, Hungary and Württemberg.

South African Lipizzaners

After the resolution of yet another dispute over the Slavonian property of the Janković-Bésáns in the late 1920s, the horse breeding operation then moved to Öreglak in Hungary.

Tom Starcevich

Tom Starcevich was the son of immigrants to Western Australia: Gertrude May Starcevich née Waters (born c. 1897, in Dunkirk, Kent, England) and Joseph Starcevich (born c. 1892, in Lič, Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire).

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1120

The Croatian regions of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium were governed by the United Nations mission, UNTAES.

Voćin massacre

Within the 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia, the 5th (Banja Luka) Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) was tasked with advancing north through western Slavonia, from Okučani to Daruvar and Virovitica, and with a secondary drive from Okučani towards Kutina.


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