Lordship of Vukovar

[3] The first 1702 inventory of the area governed by the Habsburg crown included the town of Vukovar as well as the villages of Komletinci, Otok, Nijemci, Đeletovci, Ilača, Tovarnik, Lovas, Tompojevci, Čakovci, Berak, Svinjarevci, Negoslavci and Bogdanovci.

[1] 1716 list expanded the area to Sotin, Opatovac, Šarengrad, Novak, Vašica, Ilinci, Banovci, Orolik, Slakovci, Laze, Jankovci and Petrovci while Komletinci and Otok were now part of the Slavonian Military Frontier.

[1] While the area was originally directly governed by the Habsburg crown, the land in Slavonia was exponentially granted to prominent noble families after the signing of the Treaty of Passarowitz 1718.

[1] In exhange for Diószeg, in 1725 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor gave the area to Johann Ferdinand I. von Kuefstein adding to it the villages of Trpinja, Bršadin, Antin, Pačetin, Korođ, Tordinci, Vera and Bobota.

[1][3] Johann Ferdinand I. von Kuefstein was introduced to the Lordship in a ceremony in Vukovar on 3 October 1728 and he received the title of Primus acquirens dominii Vuckovar as well as the formal royal grant in 1731.