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This paper investigates the power struggles between Charles I, the King of Hungary-Croatia, and the oligarchical factions led by the Babonić and the Kőszegi kindreds in medieval Slavonia in the period between 1301 and 1342. The paper follows a chronological line and looks at the different strategies for maintaining and extending power that these political actors employed at various stages, and it examines how their decisions reflected the perceived power relations and impulses for wealth preservation. A comparison of these practices opens the possibility of reaching more general conclusions about the nature of these power struggles, while the theoretical insight provided by Jeffrey Winters on oligarchy serves as a framework for different approach to these issues. In the end, this opens the door to a potential reconsideration of these struggles through a different conceptualisation of the phenomenon of loyalty [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to analyse the procedure of the loss of citizenship in Croatia and Slavonia in the period from the Bach regime to the fall of the Monarchy. For analysis the author has used relevant regulations, foreign and domestic documents and archival materials available at the Public Records Office. The analysis of legislation frame and administrative practice has lead to the conclusion that the Austrian system of citizenship loss had been introduced during the Bach regime. The mentioned system of citizenship loss was based on an attitude of undesirable emigration thus every emigration resulted in the loss of citizenship. System changes regarding loss of citizenship emerged in 1880 when the Law on acquisition and loss of Hungarian citizenship came to force. The law also introduced the integral system of citizenship loss. The significance of the law was that a new rule of citizenship loss due to the ten-year absence from the state was introduced, which deems more liberal attitude of the legislator towards emigration [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses the importance of a set of political, diplomatic and military factors which provided the context for shaping the set-up, course and outcome of the UN operation in Croatia's Eastern Slavonia. This operation has been generally regarded as a particularly successful one, thanks to specifically favourable circumstances and actions taken by the sides involved. The conceptual and practical dimensions of 'success' are examined in the operation, and it is argued that the context of the operation, in its overall dynamics, contributed decisively to a successful completion of the mandate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]