| Drava Banovina Dravska banovina Дравска бановина | |||||||||||||
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| Banovina of theKingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| 1929–1941 | |||||||||||||
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 Drava Banovina (red) within Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow) | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Ljubljana | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• 1931 | 15,849 km2 (6,119 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1921 | 1,060,356 | ||||||||||||
• 1931 | 1,144,298 | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Type | Devolved autonomousbanate | ||||||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||||||
• 1929–1934 | Alexander I | ||||||||||||
• 1934–1941 | Peter II | ||||||||||||
| Ban | |||||||||||||
• 1929–1930 | Dušan Sernec | ||||||||||||
• 1935–1941 | Marko Natlačen | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||||
• Established | 3 October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 3 September 1931 | |||||||||||||
| 16 April 1941 | |||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Slovenia,Croatia | ||||||||||||
TheDrava Banovina orDrava Banate (Slovene andSerbo-Croatian:Dravska banovina), was a province (banovina) of theKingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of most of present-daySlovenia and was named for theDrava River. The capital city of the Drava Banovina wasLjubljana.
According to the 1931Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
The Drava Banovina is bounded by a line passing from the point where the northern boundary of the district ofČabar cuts the State frontier, then following the State frontier withItaly,Austria andHungary to a point where the State frontier with Hungary reaches the riverMura (north-east ofČakovec). From the river Mura, the boundary of the Banovina follows the eastern and then the southern boundaries; of the districts ofLendava,Ljutomer,Ptuj,Šmarje,Brežice,Krško,Novo Mesto,Metlika,Črnomelj,Kočevje andLogatec, including all the districts mentioned.[1]
Also in 1931, the Municipality ofŠtrigova (now in Croatia) was separated from the Čakovec District and the rest ofMeđimurje and was included in theLjutomer District in the Drava Banovina.[2]
The Drava Banovina was administratively subdivided into 29 counties (calledsrez):
In 1941 theWorld War IIAxis powers occupied the Drava Banovina, and it was divided largely betweenNazi Germany andFascist Italy, whileHungaryannexed Prekmurje and theIndependent State of Croatia annexed some smaller border areas.[3]
Following World War II the region was reconstituted, with additional pre–World War II Italian territory (Julian March), as theFederal State of Slovenia, within afederalsecond Yugoslavia.
The following is the list of people who held the title ofBan (governor) of Drava Banovina:[4]
| Portrait | Name (Born-Died) | Term of office | Party | ||
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| Start | End | ||||
 | DušanSernec (1882–1952) | 9 October 1929 | 4 December 1930 | Slovene People's Party (SLS) | |
 | DragoMarušič (1884–1964) | 4 December 1930 | 8 February 1935 | Yugoslav National Party (JNS) | |
 | DinkoPuc (1879–1945) | 8 February 1935 | 10 September 1935 | Yugoslav Democratic Party (JDS) | |
 | MarkoNatlačen (1886–1942) | 10 September 1935 | 16 April 1941 | Slovene People's Party (SLS) | |
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