Szlavónia (Slavonia):
lying to the
east of Zagreb between the Dráva and Száva rivers,
the region today is a part of Croatia. It had been an autonomous
unit within the Kingdom of Hungary, and then a military frontier
zone. Land was once plentiful, and led to a great deal of population
mobility. The present Hungarian-speaking population lives scattered
throughout the region, and as a contiguous settlement in four
villages on the right bank of the Danube.