- Vrbas Banovina
The Vrbas Banovina or Vrbas Banate (Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian: Врбаска бановина/"Vrbaska banovina") was a province (
banovina ) of theKingdom of Yugoslavia between1929 and1941 . It was named after the Vrbas River and consisted mostly of territory in western Bosnia (part of historical and present-dayBosnia and Herzegovina ) with its capital atBanja Luka . ADvor district of present-dayCroatia was also part of the Vrbas Banovina.Borders
According to the
1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, :"The Vrbas Banovina is bounded, from the north-eastern boundary of the district ofDvor (south-west ofKostajnica ) by the river Una to the point where it flows into theSava ; it then follows the course of the Sava, which it leaves to follow the eastern boundaries of the districts ofDerventa andGračanica , as far as the riverBosna at the village of Dolac. It then continues along the south-western boundary of the district ofMaglaj as far as the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts ofTešanj , Maglaj andŽepče . From this point the boundary of the Banovina follows the northern boundary of the districts of Žepče,Zenica , andTravnik , to mount Vlasić (Ljuta Greda hill 1740); thence it passes by hill 1446, following the eastern slope of the Lesina (hill 1433), hill 1057, the Jelić (hill 1192), hill 1018, hill 1139, the Obrenovac, (hill 1167), and then across the Radanja Planina, (hill 1366) and the Igrališta, (hill 1085), and up to the Rakovec (hill 1217). From this point the boundary passes the villages ofPodripci andSultanović , and then passes between the villages ofGmići andGuvno to the Osoj (hill 888); it continues along the ridge, following the Suljaga (hill 1533), the Demirovac (hill 1724), and the Crni Vrh (hill 1403), to the Mali Vitorog (hill 1748). From the Mali Vitorog the frontier follows the eastern and then the south-western boundary of the district ofGlamoč to the foot of hill 1156, on mount Staretina; from there the boundary cuts the western part of the plain of Livno, to theTroglav (hill 1913) on the south-western boundary of the district ofLivno , and follows this line to the Veliki Bat (hill 1851). From this point the boundary continues following the southern and western boundaries of the district ofBosanski Petrovac as far as the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts ofDonji Lapac ,Knin , and also Bosanski Petrovac. From this point to the north-eastern boundary of the district of Dvor (south-west of Kostajnica) the boundary coincides with the boundary ... of the Sava Banovina."Population
The population of the Vrbas Banovina in 1931 was 1,037,382. Most numerous religious groups were
Orthodox Christians with 600,529 (58%), thenMuslims with 250,265 (24%), and finallyRoman Catholic s with 172,787 (17%).History
In
1939 , a small portion of the Vrbas Banovina with Croat majority (Derventa and Gradačac) in the northeast was detached and made a part of the newly formedBanovina of Croatia .In 1941, the
World War II Axis Powers occupied Vrbas Banovina and the province was abolished and attached to theIndependent State of Croatia . Following World War II, most of the region became part of the Socialist Republic ofBosnia and Herzegovina within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia. ADvor district became part of the Socialist Republic ofCroatia .Since
1992 , the area of the former province has been split betweenRepublika Srpska andFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina within independentBosnia and Herzegovina .ee also
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
*History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Republika Srpska
*Bosanska Krajina External links
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