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Srijemska županija Srijem County County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia 12th century – 1920 Coat of arms Location of Srijem County (yellow) within the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (green) Capital Vukovar History  - Established 12th century  - Treaty of Trianon June 4 1920 Area  - 1910 6,866 km² (2,651 sq mi) Population  - 1910 414,200       Density 60.3 /km²  (156.2 /sq mi) Today part of Croatia, Serbia

Old map of Srijem County

Srijem County (Croatian: Srijemska županija; Serbian: Sremska županija, Cyrillic script: Сремска жупанија; Hungarian: Szerém) 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. The territory of the County is currently in eastern Croatia and north-western Serbia. The name Srijem (or Srem, Syrmia) is still used for the corresponding regions in Serbia and Croatia. The capital of the county was Vukovar.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Srijem County shared borders with the Kingdom of Serbia, the Austro-Hungarian land of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Hungarian counties of Bács-Bodrog and Torontál, and the Croatian-Slavonian counties of Požega and Virovitica. The County stretched along the right (southern) bank of the river Danube and the left (northern) bank of the river Sava, down to their confluence. Its area was 6,866 km² around 1910.

[edit] History

For the history of the region of Srijem in general, please see that article.

The territory of Srijem County was part of the medieval Kingdom of Croatia when it entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary in 1102. By the 13th century, two counties were formed in this region: Srijem (in the east) and Vukovar (in the west). Srijem County was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1521 and the area became an Ottoman sanjak in 1544. The Habsburg Empire took one part of Syrmia from the Ottomans in 1688, while the other part was taken by Habsburgs in 1718. The entire region was incorporated into the Military Frontier, which was then extended from Western Slavonia, where it stood in 1683, all the way to Transylvania.

Srijem County was re-established in 1745. The county was included into the Kingdom of Slavonia, a Habsburg province, which was part of both, the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia, and the Kingdom of Hungary. The Kingdom of Slavonia was mainly inhabited by Serbs and Croats.

In 1848 and 1849 the area of the county was part of the Serbian Voivodship, a Serbian autonomous region proclaimed at the May Assembly in Srijemski Karlovci. Between 1849 and 1860 the area was part of the Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat, a separate crown land of the Austrian Empire.

After 1860 Srijem County was established again, and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Slavonia, which was a completelly separate Habsburg province at the time. In 1867, as a consequence of the Ausgleich between the Austrians and the Hungarians, Kingdom of Slavonia was incorporated into Transleithania, the half of Austria-Hungary run from Budapest, and in the Hungarian-Croatian Settlement of 1868, it was incorporated into Croatia-Slavonia, a formally separate kingdom within the Kingdom of Hungary, which had a certain level of autonomy and was ruled by its own ban.

After World War I, the area of Srijem County became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 and this was confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. The County of Srijem was administrative division of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1918 and 1922, and then was transformed into the Province (Oblast) of Srijem. After 1922, the county as such no longer existed.

[edit] Demographics

According to the census of 1870, the county had 120,352 inhabitants. According to the census of 1890, the county had 347,022 inhabitants. According to the census of 1910, the county had 414,234 inhabitants.

Population by language (1910 census):

• Serbian = 183,109 (44.20%)
• Croatian = 106,198 (25.64%)
• German = 68,086 (16.44%)
• Hungarian = 29,522
• Slovakian = 13,841
• Russniak = 4,642

[edit] Subdivisions

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

Districts
District	Capital
Irig	Irig
Mitrovica	Mitrovica
Stara Pazova	Stara Pazova
Šid	Šid
Ilok	Ilok
Vinkovci	Vinkovci
Vukovar	Vukovar
Zemun	Zemun
Županja	Županja
Urban counties
Zemun
Urban districts
Sremski Karlovci
Petrovaradin
Mitrovica

The towns of Vukovar, Ilok, Vinkovci, and Županja are currently in Croatia, in Vukovar-Srijem county. The towns of Šid, Ruma, Irig, Mitrovica (Sremska Mitrovica), Stara Pazova, Sremski Karlovci and Petrovaradin are currently in Vojvodina. Zemun is currently in Central Serbia.

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