Danube Banovina

Danube Banovina Dunavska banovina Дунавска бановина
Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1929–1941
Flag Coat of arms
Monarch
• 1929–1934	Alexander I
• 1934–1941	Peter II
Ban
• 1929–1930	Daka Popović
• 1941	Milorad Vlaškalin
History
• Established	3 October 1929
• 1931 Yugoslav Constitution	3 September 1931
• Invasion of Yugoslavia	17 April 1941
Preceded by Succeeded by Banat, Bačka and Baranja Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1945–1963) People's Republic of Serbia People's Republic of Croatia
Today part of	Croatia Serbia

Danube Banovina or Danube Banate (

According to the 1931 census, the Danube Banovina had 2,387,495 inhabitants. The population of this region was composed of:

• Serbs and Croats (56.9%)
• Hungarians
  (18.2%)
• Germans
  (16.3%)

According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,

• "The Danube Banovina is bounded on the south-west by the boundaries ... of 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)."

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

In 1945 the region was restored as a province of Serbia within a

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

• Daka Popović (1929–1930)
• Radoslav Dunjić (1930)
• Svetomir Matić (1930–1931)
• Milan Nikolić (1931–1933)
• Dobrica Matković (1933–1935)
• Milojko Vasović (1935)
• Svetislav Paunović (1935–1936)
• Svetislav Rajić (1936–1939)
• Jovan Radivojević (1939–1940)
• Branko Kijurina (1940–1941)
• Milorad Vlaškalin (1941)

• Vojvodina
• Administrative divisions of Yugoslavia

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danube Banovina.

• "Dunavska banovina", Enciklopedija Novog Sada, sveska 7, urednik Dr Dušan Popov, Novi Sad, 1996.
• The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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