Zeta Banovina
| Zetska Banovina Zetska banovina Зетска бановина | |||||||||||||||
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| Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
| 1929–1941 | |||||||||||||||
 Location of Zeta Banovina (red) within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow) | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Cetinje | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1931 | 30,997 km2 (11,968 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1931 | 925,516 | ||||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||||
| Ban of Zeta | |||||||||||||||
• 1929-1931 | Krsta Smiljanić (first) | ||||||||||||||
• 1941 | Blažo Đukanović (last) | ||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||||||
• Established | 3 October 1929 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 17 April 1941 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Montenegro Kosovo Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Croatia | ||||||||||||||
The Zeta Banovina (
Zeta that roughly corresponds to modern-day Montenegro. The capital of Banovina was Cetinje
.
Borders
According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
The Zeta Banovina is bounded on the north by the southern boundaries of the
Drin, including all these districts. Then the boundary coincides, up to the Adriatic Sea, with the Yugoslav-Albanian State frontier.[citation needed]
History
In 1939, predominantly
Catholic areas of the Zeta Banovina from the Konavle to Pelješac including Dubrovnik were merged with a new Banovina of Croatia
.
World War II
In 1941, the
Gulf of Kotor was annexed by Fascist Italy while much of the rest was joined with Italian-occupied Montenegro and Albania. Eastern areas were made part of German-occupied Serbia and western areas part of Independent State of Croatia
.
Following World War II, the region was divided between Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia.
Demographics
According to the 1931 census, the Zeta Banovina had a population of 925,516 and an area of 30,997 km2.
Cities and towns
- Cetinje (capital)
- Andrijevica
- Berane
- Bijelo Polje
- Bileća
- Danilovgrad
- Dubrovnik (1939 to the Banovina of Croatia)
- Đakovica
- Foča
- Gacko
- Istok
- Kolašin
- Kotor
- Ljubinje
- Mitrovica
- Nevesinje
- Nikšić
- Nova Varoš
- Novi Pazar
- Orahovac
- Peć
- Pljevlja
- Podgorica
- Priboj
- Prijepolje
- Raška
- Sjenica
- Srbica
- Stari Bar
- Šavnik
- Tivat
- Trebinje
- Tutin
- Ulcinj
List of Bans of Zeta
| Name | Term of office | Born | Party affiliation |
Monarch | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||||||
| 1 | Krsta Smiljanić | 1929 | 1931 |  Ljubiš(now Serbia) |
Military |  (1929–1934)
| |
| 2 | 
|
Uroš Krulj | 1931
|
Bosnia-Herzegovina )
|
JRSD
| ||
| 3 | 
|
Aleksa Stanišić | 1932 | 1934 |  Prijepolje(now Serbia) |
JRSD
| |
| 4 | 
|
Mujo Sočica | 1934 | 1936 |  Plužine(now Montenegro) |
JRZ | Paul  (1934–1941)
|
| 5 | 
|
Petar Ivanišević | 1936 | 1939 | Bosnia-Herzegovina )
|
JRZ | |
| 6 | 
|
Božidar Krstić | 1939 | 1941 | Jagodina (now Serbia) |
JRZ | |
| 7 | 
|
Blažo Đukanović | 1941
|
Nikšić (now Montenegro) |
Military |  (1941)
| |
See also
- Zeta Oblast(1919-1929)
- Zeta(medieval principality)
- Montenegro (sovereign state)
- Administrative divisions of Yugoslavia