Drina Banovina

The Drina Banovina ( serbokroat. Drinska banovina, kyrill. Дринска бановина ) was one of nine Banats of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which were formed on 3 October 1929. The capital city, de facto the provincial capital, Sarajevo was. The Banovina consisted of approximately the eastern part of Bosnia, and the west-central Serbia. They were named after the river Drina Banovina.

Population

The limits of Banovina were drawn so that the Orthodox Yugoslavs ( in kdm Yugoslavia censuses were not conducted by nationality, but according to the language, so the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks were summarized in the Serbo-Croatian language ) formed the majority population. Thus, the Drina Banovina could be counted among the " Serbia " countries. With the establishment of the Croatian Banovina in 1939 was planned, Yugoslavia divided into three federal units, consisting of the Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian Banovina. The Serbian Banovina would thus also the Drina Banovina should include.

History

The Drina Banovina was created in 1929 with the reorganization of the Yugoslav state from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, under Alexander I.. With the establishment of the Croatian Banovina in 1939 were smaller areas of Brcko in the north to the new Banovina. After the attack of Hitler's regime to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the capitulation of Yugoslavia 1941, the Drina Banovina was dissolved. The western, that is, Bosnian part was the Ustasha state slammed the eastern, zentralserbische came to the Protectorate of Serbia. After the war in Bosnia - Herzegovina was formed within the limits before 1918 and as a federal republic in communist Yugoslavia, the eastern part of the Drina Banovina remained with Serbia; the Banovina itself was not renewed.