Slavonia is, with Dalmatia, Croatia proper, and Istria, one of the four historical regions of Croatia. Located in the Pannonian Plain and taking up the east of the country, it roughly corresponds with five Croatian counties: Brod-Posavina, Osijek-Baranja, Požega-Slavonia, Virovitica-Podravina, and Vukovar-Syrmia, although the territory of the counties includes Baranya, and the definition of the western extent of Slavonia as a region varies. The counties cover 12,556 square kilometres or 22.2% of Croatia, inhabited by 806,192—18.8% of Croatia's population. The largest city in the region is Osijek, followed by Slavonski Brod and Vinkovci.
Slavonski Brod, commonly shortened to simply Brod, is a city in eastern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being one of the principal cities in the historical regions of Slavonia and Posavina, Slavonski Brod is the 7th largest city in the country, with a population of 59,141 at the 2011 census. It is the centre of Brod-Posavina County and a major river port on the Sava river.
Donji Miholjac, is a town in the Slavonia region of Croatia, on the river Drava and the border with Hungary.
The Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, commonly known as the University of Osijek (UNIOS), is a public university based in Osijek, Croatia. Established in 1975, it is the flagship institution of higher education in Slavonia, and one of the largest and oldest universities in Croatia.
Sarvaš is a village in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, east of Osijek. It has a population of 1,658. It is administratively within the area of the city of Osijek. Szarvas means "deer" in Hungarian.
The history of the Jews in Croatia dates back to at least the 3rd century, although little is known of the community until the 10th and 15th centuries. According to the 1931 census, the community numbered 21,505 members, and it is estimated that on the eve of the Second World War the population was around 25,000 people. Most of the population was murdered during the Holocaust that took place on the territory of the Nazi puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia. After the war, half of the survivors chose to settle in Israel, while an estimated 2,500 members continued to live in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there were 509 Jews living in Croatia, but that number is believed to exclude those born of mixed marriages or those married to non-Jews. More than 80 percent of the Zagreb Jewish Community were thought to fall in those two categories.
Jagodnjak is a village and a municipality in the Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. Landscape of the Jagodnjak Municipality is marked by the Drava river with surrounding wetland forest and by Pannonian Basin plains with agricultural fields of wheat, common sunflower, maize and sugar beet.
The subdivisions of Croatia on the first level are the 20 counties and one city-county.
Čeminac is a village and municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. As of 2021, there were 2,856 inhabitants in the municipality. Čeminac is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.
Čepin is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. It is located in northeast Slavonia, 10 kilometers southwest of Osijek.
Matica hrvatska is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyrian movement during the Croatian National Revival (1835–1874). Its main goals are to promote Croatian national and cultural identity in the fields of art, science, spiritual creativity, economy and public life as well as to care for social development of Croatia.
The Valpovo work camp was a camp set up by the communist regime of Yugoslavia for Germans and Austrians in the aftermath of the Second World War. The camp operated from 1945 to 1946.
Branimir Altgayer was a German minority leader in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia, and an SS officer in World War II.
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia was a social-democratic political party in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. The party was active from 1894 until 1916.
Zdravko Dizdar is a Croatian historian.
Mirko Valentić is a Croatian historian.
Andrija Torkvat Brlić was a writer, linguist, politician and lawyer from Croatia at the time it was in the Austrian Empire. A follower of the Illyrian movement, Brlić was one of the most prominent advocates of unification of South Slavs in the 19th century.
Baron Juraj (Gjuro) Rukavina Vidovgradski was a Croatian politician and soldier. He was born in the Trnovec Manor near Krapinske Toplice to Alfred, deputy Varaždin County prefect in Sveti Križ Začretje as one of eight siblings. His grandfather was General of the Artillery Juraj Rukavina Vidovgradski. He attended school in Varaždin before enroling in and graduating from the Theresian Military Academy. He served in the military, rising to the rank of Oberleutnant. Rukavina left the service by 1861 when he met Ante Starčević, the leader and founder of the Party of Rights. Rukavina became a party member and was elected on the party ticket to the Sabor of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. He also became the president of the Club of the Party of Rights, a leading body of the party, while Starčević retained the overall leadership of the party. Rukavina was the leader of the party members from his native region of Hrvatsko Zagorje. He left the party in 1895 following a conflict with Josip Frank, but he became member once again after Frank and his faction split from the party to form the Pure Party of Rights. Rukavina died in 1915, survived by son Amon.
The Lordship of Vukovar was a large land estate, lordship, established in the Kingdom of Slavonia in 1731, after the liberation of the region from the Ottoman rule following the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. The seat of the lordship was in the town of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube river where between 1749 and 1751 representative Eltz Manor was constructed. The lordship existed until the end of the World War II in Yugoslavia and the establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. Significant part of its agricultural estates was subsequently run by the agricultural production company—Vupik.
