Osijek Oblast Explained

Conventional Long Name:Osijek Oblast
Common Name:Osijek Oblast
Subdivision:Oblast
Nation:the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
P1:Bjelovar-Križevci
Flag P1:Belovar-Koros coatofarms.jpg
P2:Virovitica County
Flag P2:Coa_Hungary_County_Verőce_(history).svg
P3:Požega County
Flag P3:Coa_Hungary_County_Pozsega_(history).svg
S1:Sava Banovina
Capital:Osijek
Event Start:Vidovdan Constitution
Year Start:1922
Event End:Royal dictatorship
Year End:1929
Stat Year1:estimate
Stat Area1:13394
Stat Pop1:775,823
Today:Croatia

The Osijek Oblast (Croatian: Osječka oblast) was an administrative division of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It existed from 1922 to 1929 and its capital was the city of Osijek.

Oblast elections

Elections in oblasts were held once on January 23, 1927.

PartiesRepresentativesFrom OsijekPercentage
align=left colspan=2Croatian Peasant Party59176.6%
align=left colspan=211align="center" -14.3%
align=left colspan=2Croatian Federalist Peasant Party 333.9%
align=left colspan=2People's Radical Party212.6%
align=left colspan=2Croatian Party of Rights1align="center" -1.3%
align=left colspan=2Independent Democratic Party dissidents1align="center" -1.3%
align=left colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9"Total[1] 775100.0%

Veliki župan

The oblast was headed by a veliki župan (Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian for "Great prefect"). They were:[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/12214.pdf Osnivanje i djelatnost četničkih udruženja na području grada i kotara Osijek u monarhističkoj Jugoslaviji (1918. – 1941.)
  2. http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/66228 Ukinuće Bjelovarsko-križevačke županije i kako je to područje prošlo u vrijeme djelovanja Osječke i Zagrebačke oblasne skupštine 1927. i 1928. godine