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Kingdom of Slavonia
Origins
Habsburg armies drove the Ottomans out of Slavonia in the Great Turkish War, and the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 confirmed the conquest. The reclaimed land was divided between a civilian part, organised as the counties of Požega, Virovitica and Srijem, and a southern strip along the Sava placed in the Military Frontier.
Rule and society
Slavonia was depopulated by war, so the crown and new landowners brought in German, Hungarian, Slovak and Serb settlers. Osijek's fortress, Tvrđa, was rebuilt in the 1710s and 1720s, and the bishopric of Đakovo revived Catholic life, while Orthodox Serbs were organised around Sremski Karlovci. From 1745 the civil counties were placed under the Croatian ban and Sabor.
Decline and legacy
Slavonia remained formally a separate kingdom within the Lands of the Hungarian Crown until the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement of 1868 joined it with Croatia as the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. The eastern part, Srijem, was divided between Croatia and Serbia after 1945.
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- Kingdom of Slavonia was part of Habsburg Monarchy1699 CE – 1804 CE
- Kingdom of Slavonia was part of Austrian Empire1804 CE – 1867 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kingdom of Slavonia. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/kingdom-of-slavonia
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