It was used in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria-Hungary (1848–1918), later in the regions of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–29), banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–41) (where it was called a srez), grand župas of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) (1941–45), and in post-WWII Yugoslavia until 1955.
[1] In Yugoslavia, a kotar consisted of municipalities (Serbo-Croatian: općina).
Larger cities were usually not included in the counties but were separate units.
Thus, in 1955, the People's Republic of Croatia was divided into 27 counties, and in later years further changes were made to the organization of local government.
[1] A city settlement in Croatia can be divided into subdivisions called četvrt (lit.