Danube Banovina
Danube Banovina Dunavska banovina Дунавска бановина | |||||||||||||||
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Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
1929–1941 | |||||||||||||||
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Capital | Novi Sad (1929–1941) Smederevo (1941)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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• Established | 3 October 1929 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 17 April 1941 | ||||||||||||||
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Danube Banovina or Danube Banate (Serbo-Croatian: Dunavska banovina / Дунавска бановина), was a banovina (or province) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical regions of Syrmia, Bačka, Banat, Baranya, Šumadija, and Braničevo. The capital city of the Danube Banovina was Novi Sad. The province was named after the Danube River.
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Population[]
According to the 1931 census, the Danube Banovina had 2,387,495 inhabitants. The population of this region was composed of:
Borders[]
According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
- "The Danube Banovina is bounded on the south-west by the boundaries ... of the Sava and Drina Banovinas, on the north and north-east by the State frontiers with Hungary and Romania, up to the point where the latter frontier meets the Danube. The boundary then follows the course of the Danube up to the eastern boundary of the district of Ram and then turns along the south-eastern boundary of the Požarevac district. It then follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of , Lepenica, Kragujevac, and Gruža, as far as the Dulenski Crni Vrh (hill 919), turning towards the Gledic Mountains and thence over the Krečane (hill 760) and Brzak (hill 822) up to the boundary of the Drina Banovina on Mount Kotlenik, near Crni Vrh (hill 768)."
History[]
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In 1931, Mitrovica and Šid districts were transferred from Drina Banovina to Danube Banovina.
In 1939, when the new Banovina of Croatia was formed, Šid and Ilok districts were transferred from the Danube Banovina to that of Croatia.
In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the Danube Banovina. Bačka and Baranja regions were attached to Hungary, while Syrmia was attached to the Independent State of Croatia. The remainder of the former Danube Banovina (including Banat, Šumadija, and Braničevo) were part of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. However, Banat had autonomy as a region ruled by its ethnic German minority.
In 1945 the region was restored as a province of Serbia within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia. The province was officially renamed as Vojvodina, its historical name, with the capital at the city of Novi Sad. The new province consisted of Syrmia, Banat and Bačka regions. Baranja was included in the People's Republic of Croatia, while Šumadija and Braničevo were included in Serbia Proper.
Cities[]
Some large cities of the Danube Banovina were:
- Novi Sad
- Subotica
- Petrovgrad (now Zrenjanin)
- Sombor
- Velika Kikinda (now Kikinda)
- Mitrovica (now Sremska Mitrovica)
- Kragujevac
- Smederevo
- Požarevac
Bans of Danube Banovina (1929–1941)[]
- Daka Popović (1929–1930)
- (1930)
- Svetomir Matić (1930–1931)
- (1931–1933)
- Dobrica Matković (1933–1935)
- (1935)
- (1935–1936)
- (1936–1939)
- Jovan Radivojević (1939–1940)
- (1940–1941)
- (1941)
See also[]
References and further reading[]
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- "Dunavska banovina", Enciklopedija Novog Sada, sveska 7, urednik Dr Dušan Popov, Novi Sad, 1996.
- The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- States and territories established in 1929
- States and territories disestablished in 1941
- Yugoslav Serbia
- Yugoslav Croatia
- 20th century in Vojvodina
- Banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- History of Banat
- History of Bačka
- History of Syrmia
- History of Baranya (region)
- 1929 establishments in Yugoslavia
- 1941 disestablishments in Yugoslavia