Review article
Decisions of the Virovitica County Assembly from 12 February and 11 March 1861
Attila Čokolić
; Europska avenija 6, Osijek, Hrvatska
Miro Gardaš
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta Josip Juraj Strossmayer u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
In their paper the authors first give a survey of political-historical events in the Austrian empire at the turn of the 19th century until 1861 making emphasis on events in the European context. The bishop of Bosnia and Đakovo-Srijem, Josip Juraj Strossmayer was appointed the great district prefect of the Virovitica county on 5 January 1861. The appointment for the great district prefect of the Virovitica county was completed in Osijek on 11 February 1861. The authors deal in their paper with decisions from a session of the county assembly held on 12 February 1861 and when, apart from electing the assembly’s clerkdom, there were discussions on unity and integrity of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia as well as on the restoration of ‘’old constitution’’. Concerning a ‘’transferring’’ of Međimurje as an integral part of the Varaždin county into the Hungarian Zalad county, the Virovitica county demanded from a Vice-Roy to declare the decision illegal and unconstitutional in order to prevent a secession until assembly’s solution. One of the decisions was that Dalmatia and Istra with Kvarner islands and a part of Lower Styria from the Zagorje county should be returned to the Triune Kingdom where they belong and as was expressed by the petition officially submitted to the king himself. On 11 March 1861 after a session of the Virovitica county assembly, decisions were repeatedly introduced the most important one being that there was a discontent at the assembly over not summoning the Croatian Military Border and Dalmatia at the Croatian Diet and in relation to that, the petition should be submitted to the king. At the same time the motion was presented that the king should open the Croatian Diet session as well as he should be crowned in Zagreb as the king of the Triune Kingdom. The Hungarian Diet was requested to acknowledge independence and sovereignty of the Triune Kingdom and equality of the Zvonimir and St. Stephen crown. In the end the comments of political proposals (decisions) are mentioned together with the visionary aspirations of the Virovitica county assembly under the leadership of the great district prefect, the bishop Strossmayer in his one-year guidance of the Virovitica county.
Keywords
Josip Juraj Strossmayer; the great district perfect; the county of Virovitica; the Virovitica county assembly; assembly decisions
Hrčak ID:
21570
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Publication date:
27.12.2007.
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