Vardar Banovina

Coordinates: 42°00′N 21°25′E / 42.000°N 21.417°E / 42.000; 21.417
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Vardar Banovina
Вардарска бановина
Vardarska banovina
Banovina of Yugoslavia
1929–1941

Vardar Banovina (red) within
the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow)
CapitalSkopje
Area 
• 1931
36,672 km2 (14,159 sq mi)
Population 
• 1921
1,323,546
• 1931
1,574,243
History 
• Established
1929
• Disestablished
1941
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Albania
Kingdom of Bulgaria
German-occupied Serbia
Democratic Federal Macedonia
Today part ofKosovo
North Macedonia
Serbia

The Vardar Banovina, or Vardar Banate (

banate) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
between 1929 and 1941.

History

It was located in the southernmost part of the country, encompassing the whole of today's

Albania under Italy. Following World War II, the southern portion of the region became Socialist Republic of Macedonia while the northern portions were made a part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, both within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
.

Bans of Vardar Banovina

  • Živojin Lazić (1929–1932)
  • Dobrica Matković (1932–1933)
  • Dragoslav Đorđević (1933–1935)
  • Ranko Trifunović (1935–1936)
  • Dušan Filipović (1936)
  • Dragan Paunović (1936–1937)
  • Marko Novaković (1937–1939)
  • Vladimir Hajduk-Veljković (1939)
  • Aleksandar Cvetković (1939)
  • Aleksandar Andrejević (1939–1940)
  • Žika Rafajlović (1940–1941)

Cities and towns

  • Map of Yugoslav banovinas in 1929 (The Vardar Banovina is #9)
    Map of Yugoslav banovinas in 1929 (The Vardar Banovina is #9)
  • Map of Vardar Banovina
    Map of Vardar Banovina
  • Sobranie Palace, administrative building of Banovina, today Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia
    Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia

See also

References

  1. ^ Published in the: Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council, Belgrade 1930
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External links

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