The State Archives in Slavonski Brod () is the primary public institution responsible for preservation of archival materials in the

Brod-Posavina County Brod-Posavina County () is the southern Slavonian county in Croatia. Its center is the city of Slavonski Brod and it spreads along the left bank of the Sava river, hence the name '' Posavina''. Other notable towns include Nova Gradiška. Geograp ...

and

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located in

Slavonski Brod Slavonski Brod (, ), commonly shortened to simply Brod, is a city in eastern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being one of the principal cities in the historical regions of Slavonia and Posavina, Slavonski Brod is the 7th lar ...

in eastern

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History

Due to the accumulation of documents at the city museum and the need for systematic collection and proper storage, an initiative to establish an archive in Slavonski Brod was launched in 1957. This was part of a broader plan to create a new network of archives in the

People's Republic of Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

. The Croatian Archival Council supported the initiative, leading to the establishment of the Historical Archive of Slavonski Brod on March 16, 1959, by the decision of the People's Committee of the Slavonski Brod district. After the independence of Croatia, the Ministry of Culture took over the role of founder of the archives on May 27, 1994. Following directives from the Ministry of Culture on January 21, 1993, the archive was renamed from the ''Historijski arhiv u Slavonskom Brodu'' to the ''Povijesni Arhiv u Slavonskom Brodu''. The term "''Historijski''" was replaced with "''Povijesni''," both of which translate to "historical" in English. While "Povijesni" is derived from exclusively Croatian lexicons, "Historijski" is a shared version throughout

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language area. This change signified a broader trend of shift towards emphasizing national linguistic identity at the time. The archive was renamed once again in 1997 to its current name. In 2024 the archive organized a ceremony to mark 65 years of its work.

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Archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ...

History of Slavonia

History

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