Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal

perducta series 1792 in which he gave detailed and thorough list of all Croatian bans through five centuries.

[3] Others non published works include Lexicon historicum et topographicum and Geographica descriptio Croatiae et Slavoniae.

However, his most important work is "Hrvati rodom Slaveni, potekli od Sarmata potomaka Medijaca" (eng.

"Croats of Slavic group originated from Sarmatians descending from Medians") which he defended as a doctoral dissertation in Royal Academy in Zagreb in 1797.

However, his theory of Iranian origins of Croats (rather than the popular idea of their common Slavic ancestry) gained some traction in the 19th and 20th centuries among local scholars.