TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGIONALISM THE CASE OF CROATIA
TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGIONALISM THE CASE OF CROATIA

Author(s): Lino Veljak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Constitutional Law, Governance, Government/Political systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: regionalism; centralism; local self-government; administration; democratic control; euroregions
Summary/Abstract: The territory occupied by the present-day Republic of Croatia used to be divided among three states in the early New Age (i.e. before the onset of modernization), those being: Austria (later Austria-Hungary), the Ottoman Em­ pire (until the beginning of the Turkish retreat from the west Balkans, parts of Slavonia, central Croatia, Lika and littoral Dalmatia used to be part of that empire) and the Republic of Venice (a larger part of Istria and Dalmatia, until Venice ceded its independence to Napoleon in 1797). The virtually independent Republic of Dubrovnik should also be included here (until it was abolished in the same manner as the Republic of Venice ceased to exist). Following the defeat of Napoleonic France, which had annexed most of the aforementioned territories to its Illyrian Provinces, (that episode represented an important im­ pulse for modernization), the entire area of Croatia was ruled by the Habsburg Empire and was divided into four (later three) separate entities: The Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, under the authority of the Banus (i.e. Viceroy, and was historically based on the medieval kingdom, at first under domestic and later under Hungarian rulers, which in 1527 was subjected to the Habsburg crown), the Kingdom of Dalmatia (which has the same roots as the afore-mentioned Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, with which it territorially comprised the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, The Land (the country or province) of Istria and Military Krajina (areas bordering upon the Turkish Empire, under military administration of the Viennese Court).

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