| Mirko Valentić | |
| Birth Date: | 1932 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Ivanjska, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
| Occupation: | Historian |
Mirko Valentić (19 September 1932 – 18 January 2025) was a Croatian historian.
Mirko Valentić was born in Ivanjska near Banja Luka, then part of the Vrbas Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).[1] In 1961, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with a degree in History and received his doctorate in 1978 with the thesis "Hrvatsko-slavonska Vojna krajina i pitanje njezina sjedinjenja s Hrvatskom 1849-1881" (Croatian-Slavonian Military Border and the Question of Its Unification with Croatia 1849-1881). From 1993 onward, he worked as a professor at the University of Zagreb.
In 2005, Valentić became a member of the council for the preparation of Amicus curiae before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
His research topics included the Military Frontier; transport integration and Adriatic orientation of Croatia; migration and colonization processes in the 16th and 17th centuries; Burgenland Croats; and "Greater Serbian projects" of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Valentić died in 2025, aged 92.[2]
Časni znak zemlje Gradišće (2013)[3]
