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Hungarians and Citizenship in Croatia-Slavonia 1868-1918

According to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise from the year 1867, Croatia-Slavonia was defined as a part of Hungarian lands. By subsequently reached Croatian-Hungarian Compromise in 1868 Croatia- Slavonia was recognized as a special autonomous territory within these lands. Nevertheless, the special Croatian-Slavonian citizenship was not established. Since the national citizenship was one for all the Hungarian lands, the settlers from Hungary in Croatia-Slavonia were not foreigners with regard to national citizenship. However, these settlers were not legally equal to the indigenous people. In the legal system, there were barriers that prevented them to vote and to be elected in elections for the Croatian- Slavonian Diet. These settlers were also excluded from the emerging system of social rights. Attitudes towards the immigrants as others were also visible in some acts of autonomous administrative bodies in which they were classified as foreigners. In doing so, they used municipal citizenship in Croatia-Slavonia as a basic criterion of distinction. Therefore, these settlers were naturalized in the moment they acquired affiliation to one of Croatian-Slavonian municipalities. In this way Hungarian settlers were partly excluded from full integration to Croatian society. However, it should be said that the exclusion was only partial. Keeping in mind that Central Government in Budapest had significant impact on Croatia-Slavonia these settlers were in some cases even privileged to indigenous people. For example, the settlers were highly over-represented in the railways in Croatia-Slavonia. Considering the above, we can conclude that the Hungarians in Croatia-Slavonia, despite the fact there was a national citizenship for all the lands of Hungarian crown, were a special group of citizens partly excluded and in some areas even privileged to indigenous people.

Hungarians, citizenship, Croatia-Slavonia

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