Sclavonia

(slah-vo'ne-ah,) or Slavonia, a ter. of the Austrian empire, separated from Hungary on the N.by the Drave and Danube, and from the Turkish pro vs. on the S. by the Save. It is intersected through its centre by a mountain-range. Area, 3,643 sq. m. C. Eszek. Formerly a division of the kingdom of Hungary, it came under direct Austrian rule in 1848. Pop. 478,530. [s. 805]