ZAPADNA SLAVONIJA - RAZVOJ NARODNOSNOG SASTAVA
WEST SLAVONIA - THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL STRUCTURE

Summary/Abstract: ln this paper Slavonia includes the area of five former (until 1993) municipalities. Three are in the Ilova river-region (Daruvar, Grubišno Polje and Pakrac), while two (Novska and Nova Gradiška) are in the Sava river-basin. This is a historically Croatian area which had, prior to the Turkish occupation (1554-1691), been organized within the framework of Croatian županija s (district) and Roman Catholic church paris hes, with Croatian gentry and Croatian population. During Turkish occupation the area was devastated, the original secular and clerical organization destroyed, the Croatian population killed and exiled, and thus reduced to a small number. The Turks settled some new inhabitants, mostly Vlachs, on the nearby slopes of Psunj and Papuk, changing the ethnic structure.

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