The nobles of Turopolje or nobles of the plain ( hu, túrmezei nemesek, la, nobiles de campo) formed a group of

conditional noble A conditional noble or predialistSegeš 2002, p. 286. ( hu, prédiális nemes; la, nobilis praedialis; hr, predijalci) was a landowner in the Kingdom of Hungary who was obliged to render specific services to his lord in return for his landholding ...

s in

Slavonia Slavonia (; hr, Slavonija) is, with Dalmatia, Croatia proper, and Istria, one of the four historical regions of Croatia. Taking up the east of the country, it roughly corresponds with five Croatian counties: Brod-Posavina, Osijek-Baranja ...

within the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

from the second half of the 13th century to the middle of the 19th century. They lived in a self-governing "noble peasant community" and were exempted of taxation. They were partisans of the

Croatian-Hungarian Party Croatian-Hungarian Party ( hr, Hrvatsko-ugarska stranka) was the name of a 19th-century political party in the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia which advocated closer ties between Croatia and Hungary. It was official ...

in the 1830s and 1840s. They were named after the region of

Turopolje Turopolje () is a region in Croatia situated between the capital city Zagreb and Sisak. The administrative center of the region Turopolje is the town of Velika Gorica. Geography Turopolje forms a part of Posavina, a region to the south of Za ...

south of

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History

The nobles of Turopolje descended from

castle warrior A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

s ''(nobiles iobagiones)'' of

Zagreb County Zagreb County ( hr, Zagrebačka županija) is a county in Northern Croatia. It surrounds, but does not contain, the nation's capital Zagreb, which is a separate territorial unit. For that reason, the county is often nicknamed "Zagreb ring" ( hr, z ...

who received special privileges as a community in the second half of the 1270s.Rady 2000, p. 81. Thereafter they were exempted of taxation and were entitled to elect judges to hear their legal cases. Their lands were located in the territory bordered by the rivers

Kupa The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from la, Colapis in Roman times; hu, Kulpa) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is long, with its border part having a length of and th ...

and

Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally th ...

and the Vukomerec Hills, south of

. The "sandaled nobles of Turopolje" were not " true noblemen of the realm", thus the

Sabor The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sabor ...

or parliament denied their right to vote at its sessions from the 1750s.Feldman 2004, p. 86. However, their right to send representatives to the Sabor was confirmed by the Court Chancellery of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1830. Thereafter they represented the interests of the central government in Slavonia, against the Illyrian Party which stated that Croatia was a separate realm, not part of the Kingdom of Hungary.Péter 2012, p. 203.

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References

* Feldman, Andrea (2004). ''Imbro Tkalac: Memoirs of Boyhood in Nineteenth Century Croatia''. In: Naumović, Slobodan; Jovanović, Miroslav; ''Childhood in South East Europe: Historical Perspectives on Growing Up in the 19th and 20th Centuries''. Lit Verlag. . * Magaš, Branka (2008). ''Croatia through History: The Making of a European State''. Saqi Books. * Péter, László (2012). ''Hungary's Long Nineteenth Century: Constitutional and Democratic Traditions in a European Perspective'' (Collected Studies, Edited by Miklós Lojkó). BRILL. . * * Rady, Martyn (2000). ''Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary''. Palgrave (in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London). {{ISBN, 0-333-80085-0. Conditional nobility (Kingdom of Hungary) Croatian nobility

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