The Modruš-Rijeka County was a historic administrative subdivision (županija

Counties of Croatia

The primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia called županije . In English they are commonly referred to as counties....

) of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

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. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen

Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen

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 (Transleithania), the Hungarian part of the dual Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its territory is presently in western Croatia

Croatia

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. Modruš

Modruš

Modruš is a village in the mountainous part of Croatia, located south of Josipdol. The population is 197 .This now small village is historically noted as the seat of one of the medieval Catholic bishoprics, established in 1185 in Krbava and moved to Modruš in the 1460s. It later became the Roman...

 is a small town near Ogulin

Ogulin

Ogulin is a town in north-western Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 8,712 , and a total municipal population of 15,054...

; Rijeka

Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...

 is a large city on the Adriatic

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 coast. However, Rijeka was not part of the Modruš-Rijeka County, but under the direct administration of Hungary. The capital of the county was Ogulin

Ogulin

Ogulin is a town in north-western Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 8,712 , and a total municipal population of 15,054...

.

Geography

The Modruš-Rijeka County shared borders with the Austria

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n lands Istria

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, Carniola

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 and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the counties of Zagreb and Lika-Krbava

Lika-Krbava

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 (both in Croatia-Slavonia). The county had a strip of Adriatic Sea

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 coast. Its area was 4879 km² around 1910.

History

The territory of the County was part of the Kingdom of Croatia

Kingdom of Croatia (medieval)

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 when it entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary in 1102, and with it became part of the Habsburg Monarchy

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 in 1526. The County was created in the late 18th century. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

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 1920), the county became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). Since 1991, when Croatia

Croatia

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 became independent from Yugoslavia, the county is part of Croatia.

Demographics

In 1910, the population of the county was 231,654.

Population by language (1910 census):

• Croatian = 152,210 (65.73 %)
• Serbian = 74,894 (32.34 %)
• Hungarian = 899 (0.39 %)
• German = 592 (0.26 %)
• Slovak = 64 (0.03 %)
• Romanian = 6 (0.00 %)
• Ruthenian = 4 (0.00 %)
• other = 2,895 (1.25 %)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Modruš-Rijeka county were:

Districts
District	Capital
Čabar	Čabar Cabar Čabar is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county in western Croatia. There are 4,387 inhabitants, with 95% Croats.-Twin towns:Čabar is twinned with: Pula, Croatia ...
Cirkvenica	Crikvenica Crikvenica Crikvenica is the largest settlement on the coast of the Vinodol coastal area, Croatia, and grew up on an area which was a settlement in the Roman era called Ad Turres. Population 7,121 , total municipality population 11,348 with 90% Croats...
Delnice	Delnice Delnice Delnice is a town in western Croatia, the largest settlement in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar, in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. The town has a population of 4,451 , total municipality population is 6,858. Delnice is Gorski Kotar's main town...
Ogulin	Ogulin Ogulin Ogulin is a town in north-western Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 8,712 , and a total municipal population of 15,054...
Sušak	Bakar Bakar Bakar ) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town is 1,566 , while the population of the municipality is 7,773. 90% declare themselves Croats . The old part of Bakar is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar...
Szluin	Slunj Slunj Slunj is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, on the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjčica...
Vojnić	Vojnić Vojnic Vojnić is a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. There are 5,495 inhabitants, 50% which are Serbs and 36% which are Croats. The municipality is part of Kordun.-Demography:...
Vrbovsko	Vrbovsko Vrbovsko Vrbovsko is a town in western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county; on its 280 square kilometers area, Vrbovsko features 60 settlements and a total of 5,019 inhabitants...