Croatia Gazetteers

This is a selection of gazetteers useful for the research in the states of former Yugoslavia, namely Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia &amp; Montenegro and Slovenia. It is not intended to be a complete bibliography.


 * Imenik mesta u Jugoslaviji. 1973. Gazetteer of Yugoslavia. FHL book 949.7 E5im and FHL fiche 6053513.


 * Imenik naseljenih mesta u Socijalističkoj Federativnoj Republici Jugoslaviji. 1985. Gazetteer of Yugoslavia. FHL book 949.7 E5i and FHL film 1181764 item 1.


 * Yugoslavia: official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. 1961. FHL book 949.7 E5u and FHL film 0874462 item 2 and FHL fiche 6053509.

Gemeindelexikon (1900)
The Gemeindelexikon gazetteer of Austria will show the Catholic church jurisdictions for every place in the Austrian portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as of 1900. The volume for each province is arranged by political district, each divided into court districts, with an index to both German and local place names at the end of the book. To use, find the village in the index, which gives the page number in the gazetteer. If you do not find the village on the page listed in the index, check the footnotes. The names of the political and court district are given at the top of the page. The parish or synagogue is not listed in the main index but is given in an appendix, located between the main text and the index of each volume. The appendix is arranged alphabetically by political district and court district. In the appendix section, using the name of the districts and the village, determine the parish town where the church records were kept for your village. The parish and synagogue is given in the last column.

Church jurisdictions are shown in the following:

''Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate vertretenen Konigreiche und Lander, bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszahlung vom 31. Dezember 1900''. 14 volumes. (Gazetteer of the states of the Austrian Empire. Each state has its own volume with index and appendix showing Catholic parish jurisdictions for each town). This set is online using the following links:


 * Allgemeines Verzeichnis (Overall index to all 14 volumes)
 * Volume 4: Steiermark
 * Volume 5: Kärnten
 * Volume 6: Krain
 * Volume 7: Österreichish-Illyrisches Küstenland (appendix, index)
 * Volume 14: Dalmatien (appendix, index)


 * A Magyar Szent Korona Országainak Helységnévtára. 1913. Gazetteer of Hungary divided into sections for Hungary (vol.1-2) and for Croatia-Slavonia (vol.3). FHL book 943.9 E5m.


 * Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár. György Lelkes. 1998. Gazetteer of Hungarian localities based on 1913 boundaries. FHL book 943.9 E5Lg.


 * Allgemeines geographisch-statistisches Lexikon aller österreichischen Staaten. 1845-1853. Gazetteer of the Austrian Empire, comprising areas later located in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Italy. FHL book 943.6 E5r and FHL films 1187928-1187933 and 1186708-1186711.


 * Opći šematizam katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji: cerkev v Jugoslaviji 1974. K. S. Draganović. 1975. Roman Catholic church directory of Yugoslavia. FHL book 949.7 K22o.

Online Sources:

 * How to do Croatian Genealogy