uminating most of the city streets. According to the 1910 census, the population of Me?imurje numbered 90,387 people, including 82,829 Croats and 6,766 Hungarians.
The magyarization propaganda between the 1870s-1910s introduced the concept of Me?imurian language. According to this view, the spoken language in Me?imurje was not Croatian or Kajkavian, but Me?imurian Slavic, which is a separate Slavic language-family. J�zsef Margitai was the main propagandist of the Me?imurian language and he published few Me?imurian books. The propagandists exploited idea that the Croatians are dissatisfied with the new Serbo-Croatian language. Margitai propagated in Me?imurian the usefulness of the assimilation in the Me?imurje and the superiority of the Hungarian nation. The fake Me?imurian literary language in fact was only little different from the Kajkavian literary language.
Po�ega native Dragutin Lerman was a member of the Henry Morton Stanley expedition to Africa in 1882. He discovered waterfalls on the Kouilou River in the Congo, and named them the Zrinski chutes.
Modern history (after 1918)
In 1918, after the collapse of the monarchic union of Austria-Hungary, and after the disarmament of the local police, the Me?imurje region fell into civil disorder. The Croatian National Council sent hastily assembled troops, which crossed the river Mura and fought all the way to Dolni Lendava, where they met resistance. Troops commanded by Slavko Kvaternik finally forced the Hungarian troops to abandon Me?imurje. On 9 January 1919, Me?imurje officially seceded from Hungary, and it became part of the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia).
In the Southern region, in the Slovene March) (today the Prekmurje and Raba March near Szentgotth�rd) emerged independence-autonomy movements. J�zsef Klekl expressed the program of the autonomous (or independent) Slovene March. Oszk�r J�szi, who is supported the Slovene
