Slavonia

Slavonia
/sleuh voh"nee euh/, n.
a historic region in N Croatia.

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Historical region, Croatia.

It lay between the Sava River on the south and the Drava and Danube rivers on the north and east. It was included in the kingdom of Croatia in the 10th century. As Slavonia-Crotia, it joins Dalmatia and Istria as one of the three traditional regions of Croatia.

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