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Drina Banovina
Province of Yugoslavia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Drina Banovina or Drina Banate (Serbo-Croatian: Drinska banovina, Дринска бановина) was a province (banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. Its capital was Sarajevo and it included portions of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It was named after the Drina River and, like all Yugoslav banovinas, was intentionally not based on ethnic boundaries.[citation needed] As a result of the creation of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939, its territory was reduced considerably.
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Drina Banovina Drinska banovina Дринска бановина | |||||||||||
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Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
1929–1941 | |||||||||||
![]() Drina Banovina in 1931 | |||||||||||
Capital | Sarajevo | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• | 1,534,739 (1,931) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1929 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1941 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia |
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