Rann district

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The district of Rann ( Slovene : okraj Brežice ) was a political district in Styria . The district covered the southernmost part of Lower Styria with the areas of the judicial districts of Drachenburg , Lichtenwald and Rann .

The area was added to Yugoslavia after the First World War under the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919 and has been part of the Republic of Slovenia since 1991 .

geography

The district of Rann extended between the Save in the southwest and the Sotla in the east. In the north-west the district extended to the north into the Sava hill country (Slovenian: Posavsko hribovje ) and in the north-east it included the Kozjansko low mountain range.

history

The district of Raan was formed in the course of the separation of the political from the judicial administration in 1868 from the judicial districts of Drachenburg ( Slovene Kozje ), Lichtenwald ( Sevnica ) and Rann ( Brežice ), the district an area of ​​10.3 square miles with a population of 43,008 People included.

In 1910, 50,329 people lived in the district on an area of ​​613.49 km², 48,344 of the population present named Slovene (96.2%) as their colloquial language, 1,090 named German (2.2%) as their colloquial language. 50,270 people were of the Catholic , 52 Protestant and 2  Israelites .

Due to the border regulations of the Treaty of Saint-Germain concluded on September 10, 1919 , Austria had to cede the entire district of Rann to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

literature

  • kk Statistische Central-Commission (Hrsg.): Special-Orts-Repertorium of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Reichsrathe. Revised based on the results of the census of December 31, 1899. IV. Styria. Vienna 1893
  • kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Steiermark. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1917

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. "Law of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."
  2. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XLI. Piece, No. 101: Ordinance of July 10, 1868
  3. ↑ kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Steiermark. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1917, p. 128