Slavonia

[ sluh-voh-nee-uh ]

/ sləˈvoʊ ni ə /

noun

a historic region in N Croatia.

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Examples from the Web for slavonia

Bishop Strossmayer, coming from a family which had settled at the sprawling town of Osiek, in Slavonia, did what he could.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1|Henry Baerlein
In northern Croatia and Slavonia the mountains are far more fertile, being often densely wooded with oaks, beeches and pines.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6|Various
At length they came to the land of Slavonia, whose ruler was friend and liegeman to the Soldan of Babylon.
Saint Ursula|John Ruskin
M. George Perrot first of all gives us some types of the inhabitants of Slavonia, which we shall reproduce here.
The Human Race|Louis Figuier

Figure 54 represents a peasant from the neighbourhood of Essek, a town of Slavonia.
The Human Race|Louis Figuier

British Dictionary definitions for slavonia

Slavonia

/ (sləˈvəʊnɪə) /

noun

a region in Croatia, mainly between the Drava and Sava Rivers

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