Record Atlas
7 eras · 1102–2026 · 210 places

Civil Croatia

Zagreb, Varaždin, Koprivnica, Bjelovar, Križevci. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1102–1527 Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary FamilySearch

The Kingdom of Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102.

1527–1868 Kingdom of Croatia under the Habsburg monarchy ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online
1868–1918 Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (within the Hungarian half) ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online

The Croatian–Hungarian Settlement of 1868 merged Croatia and Slavonia into the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia; the Military Frontiers were reincorporated in 1881.

1918–1941 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch

The Croatian Sabor proclaimed independence on 29 October 1918 and joined the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs; most of the territory became the Sava Banovina in 1929 and the autonomous Banovina of Croatia was created on 24 August 1939.

1941–1945 Independent State of Croatia ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch
1945–1991 Yugoslavia — SR Croatia ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch
1991–2026 Croatia ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives · FamilySearch

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1102–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

210 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 10 more stand on this ground. Every place has them all.

4 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

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