The Varaždin Generalate (german: Warasdiner Generalat, hr, Varaždinski generalat), also known as the ''Windische Grenze'' ("Wendian/Wendish lavicBorder") in German, was a Habsburg monarchy

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province centred in Warasdin (Varaždin), Kingdom of Croatia within Habsburg Monarchy, that existed between 1531 and the 19th century. The border command was established by

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in 1531. By the 1560s the Habsburgs established a frontier defense system, made up of six main ''Grenzgeneralat'' (captain-generalcies) in the Military Frontier in Hungary and Croatia, each commanded by captain generals; the one centred in Varaždin was after 1578 known as the Wendish-Bajcsavár captain-generalcy. Until the

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, the Military Frontier's defense system had two centers, Karlovac and Varaždin. During the war, the area around the generalate was deserted. The '' Statuta Valachorum'' (1630), a decree of privileges to the Orthodox and some Greek Catholic

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and (

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) refugee community, was in effect in the generalate. A rebellion broke out in the generalate in 1632, the Frontiersmen (''Grenzer'') rose up against local Austrian governors; the rebellion was suppressed, and ''knez'' (count) Marko Bogdanović and '' harambaša'' Smiljan Vujica (or Smoljan Vujić) were executed. A rebellion broke out in the generalate in 1665–66 when Frontiersmen under Stefan Osmokruhović rose up against the Austrian officers, after the rights of the frontiersmen had been compromised. In 1737 the Military Frontier was re-organized, and the Varaždin general command included the two regiments of Križevci and Đurđevac. The area was 1871 eventually ceded to the Habsburg

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Commanders

*"Oberst der Windischen Grenze", 1616 *Sigmund Friedrich von Trauttmansdorf, "Oberst der Windischen Grenze", 1626

References

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