Sava Banovina

The Banovina Save ( serbokroat. Savska banovina, kyrill. Савска 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, Zagreb was. The Banovina consisted of what is now central Croatia and Slavonia, its territory corresponded essentially to that of the existing until 1918 the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. They were named after the river Sava Banovina.

History

The Banovina Save 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.. The Banovina Save belonged to the Banovina coast to the two Banats of the kingdom, who possessed a Croatian majority. This caused many Croats resentment, because the boundaries of Banats seemed to drag before the position of the Serbs. While only two Banats had a Croatian majority, on the other hand possessed six Banats a Serb majority. For many Croats, the boundaries of the nine Banats emphasized the hegemonic position of the Serbian population. With the Serb -Croat compensation of 26 August 1939 the so-called Sporazum, the Banovina Save with Küstenbanschaft as well as smaller areas of other Banats for autonomous Croatian Banovina was.