Drava Banovina
The Drava Banovina or Drava Banat ( slowen., serbokroat. Drava banovina, kyrill. Дравска бановина ) was one of nine Banats or Banate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which were formed on 3 October 1929. The capital city, de facto the provincial capital, Ljubljana was. The Banovina consisted of what is now Slovenia, with no coastal areas, which were awarded after 1945, Yugoslavia and Slovenia. They were named after the river Drava Banovina.
History
The Drava Banat was created in 1929 with the reorganization of the Yugoslav state from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( " SHS - State") in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Alexander I and comprised 15,936 km ². Unlike the Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, the ethnic settlement area did not meet the limits of Banats (which was especially true for the Bosniaks, while Croatian politicians criticized the limits of Banats would the Serbian settlement area and thus the position of the Serbs prefer) got the Slovenes a banovina consisting of the former Austrian crown land of Carniola, lower Styria, and the 1918 also fallen to the SHS State under parts of Carinthia. Since its expansion corresponded to the Slovenian settlement area in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Drava Banat was already considered the " Slovenian banat ". With the establishment of the autonomous " Croatian Banovina " in 1939 was planned, Yugoslavia divided into three federal units, consisting of a Slovene, a Croat and a Serb Banovina. The Drava Banat should thus be to " Slovenian banat ". After the attack of Hitler's regime to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the capitulation of Yugoslavia 1941, the Drava Banat between Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Horthy's Hungary was divided. After the war, the Republic of Slovenia was established as a federal republic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Communist Yugoslavia instead of the Drava Banovina.
Population
The population of the Drava Banat of 1.04 million consisted almost entirely of Slovenia ( 92.3 %). The largest minority were German -speaking (3.9%), Serbo- Croatian languages 1.7%, Hungarian 1.4%. With a share of 96.6 % Catholics, the Drava Banat was the strongest Catholic and with a share of 0.6%, the weakest orthodox County ( Census 1921).
Management
At the top stood in all nine Banaten a appointed by the King governor, who Banus. He was assisted in local government affairs of the Banovina also appointed a council of about two dozen members.