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Vardar Banovina
Coordinates: 4200N 2125E

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The Vardar Banovina or Vardar Banate or Banate of Vardar

(Macedonian: , Serbian: Vardar Banovina
, Vardarska banovina) was a province (banate) of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. It was located Vardarska banovina
in the southernmost part of the country, encompassing the
whole of today's Republic of Macedonia, southern parts of
Southern and Eastern Serbia and southeastern parts of Kosovo
Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
and Serbia. It was named after the Vardar River and its
administrative capital was the city of Skopje.
3 October 1929
1941
According to the 1930 statistics of the Central Press Bureau of
the Ministerial Council [1] out of the 9 Yugoslav banovinas, the
"Vardarska" banovina was the largest at 38,879 km2
(15,011 sq mi); while its population, was the fourth at 1,386,370
inhabitants. It also suffered the worst health problems,
especially typhus and smallpox, and required one Institute of
Hygiene, 3 health stations and 6 dispensaries and convalescent
homes. On the other hand, unlike the banovinas that until the
creation of Yugoslavia had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian
empire and the lands of Montenegro, it had inherited no debts.

Contents Vardar Banovina (red) within

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow)
1 Borders Capital Skopje
2 History
2.1 World War II History
3 See also Established 3 October 1929
4 References Disestablished 1941
Area
1931 36,672 km2 (14,159 sq mi)
Borders
Population
According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of 1921 1,323,546
Yugoslavia, the Vardar Banovina was bounded on the north by 1931 1,574,243
the boundaries of the Zeta and Morava Banovinas, and on the Density 42.9 /km2 (111.2 /sq mi)
east, south and west by the State frontiers with Bulgaria,
Today part of Macedonia
Greece, and Albania.
Kosovo
Serbia
History
World War II

In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the Vardar Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria,
German-occupied Serbia, and Albania under Italy. Following World War II, the southern portion of the region
became Socialist Republic of Macedonia while the northern portions were made a part of the Socialist Republic
of Serbia, both within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Map of Yugoslav Map of Vardar Administrative building

banovinas in 1929 (The Banovina of Banovina, today
Vardar Banovina is #9) Assembly of the
Republic of Macedonia

See also
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Vardar Macedonia

References
1. published in the: Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council, Belgrade 1930

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (https://web.archive.org/web/20091021145008/http://geo

cities.com/dagtho/yugconst19310903.html)

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