Eastern Slavonia is the eastern area of Slavonia, northern Croatia.
Parts of eastern Slavonia adjacent to Serbia and Montenegro became internationally known after they were seized by ethnic Serbs soon after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. The rogue state was referred to as Serbian Autonomous Region of Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, and it encompassed all of Baranja (Croatian part of wider Baranya region), plus roughly everything east of Osijek and Vinkovci and northeast of Županja, including the cities of Vukovar and Ilok.
International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty in which Germany and the US divided the Samoan archipelago.
The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.
The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885.
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