Under the Habsburg rule, German settlers were taken from different parts of Germany, the so-called Danube Swabians.

The Stifolder or Stiffoller Shvove are a Roman Catholic subgroup of the so-called Danube Swabians.

By the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the territory of the county was divided between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929) and Hungary.

The post-1920 borders were restored again after World War II and the territory of the county reduced again.

Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were all Catholic Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because the majority of their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).

Between 1991 and 1995 it was under occupation of rebel Croatian Serbs, while from 1995 through 1998 the United Nations administered that area (United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium) as a transitional body.