Province in Yugoslavia (1929–1941)
The Vardar Banovina , or Vardar Banate (Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian : Вардарска бановина , romanized : Vardarska Banovina Albanian : Banovina e Vardarit ), was a province (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 North Macedonia , southern parts of Southern and Eastern Serbia and southeastern parts of Kosovo and Serbia . It was named after the Vardar River and its administrative capital was the city of Skopje . According to the 1930 statistics of the Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council[ 1] 2 (15,011 sq mi); while its population, was the fourth at 1,386,370 inhabitants. Following the First World War , in Vardar Macedonia and in the so-called Western Outlands , the local Bulgarian (Macedonian Bulgarian ) population was not recognized and a state-policy of Serbianisation occurred.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] typhus and smallpox , and required one Institute of Hygiene, 3 health stations and 6 dispensaries and convalescent homes. On the other hand, unlike the banovinas that until the creation of Yugoslavia had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire and the lands of Montenegro , it had inherited no debts. According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Vardar Banovina was bounded on the north by the boundaries of the Zeta and Morava Banovinas , and on the east, south and west by the State frontiers with Bulgaria , Greece , and Albania . In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the Vardar Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria, German -occupied Serbia , and 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
See also
References
^ Published in the: Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council, Belgrade 1930
^ Poulton, Hugh (2003). "Macedonians and Albanians as Yugoslavs". In Djokić, Dejan (ed.). Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 123. ISBN 9781850656630 .
^ Papavizas, George C. (2015). Claiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862-2004. McFarland. pp. 92-93, ISBN 9781476610191 .
^ Horowitz, Shale (2004). "Structural Sources of Post-Communist Market Reform: Economic Structure, Political Culture, and War" . International Studies Quarterly . 48 (4): 765. doi :10.1111/j.0020-8833.2004.00324.x
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