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The Slavonian Military Frontier or Slavonian Krajina was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier. It was formed out of the territories that the Habsburgs conquered from the Ottoman Empire and included southern parts of the Slavonia and Syrmia regions. It was mostly located in today's eastern Croatia, and its easternmost parts are in today's Vojvodina, Serbia.

Contents 1 Regiments 2 Borders 3 Cities 4 Population 5 Sources 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Regiments

The Slavonian Krajina was divided into Gradiška, Brod, and Petrovaradin regiments, although the regimental seat of the Brod regiment was in Vinkovci.

[edit] Borders

During history borders of Slavonian Krajina has been changed few times. Shortly after creation in 16 century Slavonian Krajina has bordered Ottoman Empire to do east, Kingdom of Croatia (part of Habsburg Empire) and Croatian Krajina to the west and Kingdom of Hungary (part of Habsburg Empire) to do north. After Treaty of Karlowitz expanded Slavonian Krajina has bordered Kingdom of Croatia, Croatian Military Frontier to the west, Kingdom of Hungary to the north, Banat Military Frontier to the east and Ottoman Bosnia to the south. Only changes of this province neighbours before reintegration to Croatia in 1881 has been between 1849 and 1860 during existence of shortlived Serbian Voivodship and Tamiš Banat which has become eastern neighbourg and after creation of Principality of Serbia which has become southeastern neighbourg.

[edit] Cities

Some of the important cities and places in Slavonian Krajina were: Vinkovci, Nova Gradiška, Slavonski Brod, Petrovaradin, Sremski Karlovci, Stara Pazova, Zemun, Sremska Mitrovica, etc.

[edit] Population

In 1776, population of Slavonian military frontier was 177,212 inhabitants. Number of Roman Catholic men was 43,635 and 33,970 were Orthodox.

Brod and Gradiška regiments Catholics outnumbered the Orthodox, and in Petrovaradin regiment Orthodox were more numerous. That number was without inhabitants of the cities. Number of inhabitants of cities was 11,353, and that will give total of 188,565 inhabitants of Slavonian military frontier.

The 1790 population census recorded 388,000 Serbs and 325,000 Croats, while the religious structure was 52.1% Catholic and 46.8% Orthodox.

In 1840 Elek Fenyes tried to give first ethnic composition of Croatia and Hungary using church records and some official statistics. According to him, Slavonian frontier had 259,153 inhabitants, out of which 127,326 or 49.13% were Croats, 122,853 or 47.41% were Serbs, 4,126 or 1.59% were Germans, 2,658 were Hungarians, 300 were Greeks, and 290 were Jews.

In 1870 Slavonian military frontier had, according to official census, 246,901 inhabitants. Of that number 143,873 were Roman Catholic and 92,991 were Orthodox. Brod regiment had 82,540 inhabitants out of which 73,892 were Roman Catholic and 6,886 were Orthodox. Gradiška regiment had 61,596 inhabitants out of which 45,601 were Roman Catholic and 15,933 were Orthodox. Petrovaradin regiment had 102,765 inhabitants out of which 24,380 were Roman Catholic and 70,172 were Orthodox.

[edit] Sources

• Mladen Lorković, Narod i zemlja Hrvata, reprint, Split 2005.

[edit] See also

• The Brod Fortress

[edit] External links

• Map
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