Drava Banovina Dravska banovina Дравска бановина | |||||||||||||
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Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
1929–1941 | |||||||||||||
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 autonomous banate | ||||||||||||
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 |
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.