ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives
The Croatian State Archives, and through it the national register of archival fonds — which archive holds which fonds; the paper itself is almost all unphotographed. THE OLD LINK HERE WAS DEAD. This row pointed at arhinet.arhiv.hr, which no longer resolves at all — NXDOMAIN on Google's and Cloudflare's resolvers both, not a timeout or a redirect, so every Croatian researcher who clicked ARHiNET on this map got nothing. hais.arhiv.hr resolves to 161.53.80.20 and serves NOTHING ON EITHER PORT 80 OR 443 — tested 30 September 2026 with curl, which is the difference between a service that is down and one that is refusing us: the host answers DNS and nothing is listening. NOTE ALSO that hais was described here as ARHiNET's "successor"; that is not established by anyone who has checked, and a family archive that repeated it had to withdraw the claim. www.arhiv.hr is a DIFFERENT machine, 161.53.80.7, it works, and it is NOT the fonds register — neither the word ARHiNET nor HAIS appears anywhere on it in either language. What it does carry is the live register search, provider hda-mk-search. So this row points at a working site that answers a different question; the national fonds register currently has no working address known to this atlas. NOTE: the same site DOES carry a working register search — see provider hda-mk-search — which indexes the microfilmed register collection HR-HDA-1448 and answers whether a given parish was filmed. That is a separate tool from the fonds register described above, and it is the one to reach for first when the question is about matične knjige.
Last checked 2026-09-30. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1469–1809 Habsburg — Senj a Military Frontier garrison — THE TRAP. Senj was Militärgrenze, administered from Vienna and Graz, not from Croatia's civil counties. Military Frontier material is in the Croatian State Archive and in the Vienna Kriegsarchiv — not where a Croatian county search would look.
- 1918–1941 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- 1945–1991 Yugoslavia — SR Croatia
- 1991–2026 Croatia — Split-Dalmatia
- 1918–1991 Yugoslavia
- 1991–2026 Croatia — Split-Dalmatia
- 1553–1746 Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna
- 1746–1848 Habsburg — the regiment system — THE TRAP, AND IT IS THE REASON THIS REGION EXISTS. From 1746 a frontier village belonged to its REGIMENT, not to a county. Its vital registers were kept by the regimental chaplain and filed under the regiment — Ogulin, Otočac, Slunj, Gradiška, Brod, Petrovaradin — so a search of the county archive for a Lika village finds nothing before 1881, and nothing is not the same as not existing. Look for the regiment.
- 1848–1881 Habsburg — demilitarisation
- 1881–1918 Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary
- 1918–1941 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia
- 1941–1945 Independent State of Croatia
- 1945–1991 Socialist Yugoslavia
- 1991–2026 Croatia
This map knows ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives covers HR, but nobody has walked its catalogue into the shelf. That is a gap in this map, not a gap in the record. Help fill it →