The Drava Banovina or Drava Banate (Slovene and Serbo-Croatian: Dravska banovina), was a province (banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of most of present-day Slovenia and was named for the Drava River. The capital city of the Drava Banovina was Ljubljana.
Borders According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
Also in 1931, the Municipality of Štrigova (now in Croatia) was separated from the Čakovec District and the rest of Međimurje and was included in the Ljutomer District in the Drava Banovina.
Administration The Drava Banovina was administratively subdivided into 29 counties (called srez):
Brežice Celje Celje (town) Črnomelj Dolnja Lendava Dravograd Gornji Grad Kamnik Kočevje Konjice Kranj Krško Laško Litija Logatec Ljubljana Ljubljana (town) Ljutomer Maribor, desni breg Maribor, levi breg Maribor (town) Metlika Murska Sobota Novo Mesto Ptuj Ptuj (town) Radovljica Slovenj Gradec Šmarje
Aftermath
In 1941 the World War II Axis powers occupied the Drava Banovina, and it was divided largely between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, while Hungary annexed Prekmurje and the Independent State of Croatia annexed some smaller border areas.
Following World War II the region was reconstituted, with additional pre–World War II Italian territory (Julian March), as the Federal State of Slovenia, within a federal second Yugoslavia.
List of Bans
The following is the list of people who held the title of Ban (governor) of Drava Banovina:
PortraitName(Born-Died)Term of office PartyStartEnd Dušan Sernec(1882–1952) 9 October1929 4 December1930 Slovene People's Party (SLS) Drago Marušič(1884–1964) 4 December19308 February1935 Yugoslav National Party (JNS) Dinko Puc(1879–1945) 8 February1935 10 September1935 Yugoslav Democratic Party (JDS) Marko Natlačen(1886–1942) 10 September1935 16 April1941 Slovene People's Party (SLS)
See also Administrative divisions of Yugoslavia
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