Vrbas Banovina
| Vrbas Banovina Vrbaska banovina Врбаска бановина |
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| Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||
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| Capital | Banja Luka | ||||
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| • | Established | 3 October 1929 1929 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1941 | |||
| Today part of | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia | ||||
The Vrbas Banovina or Vrbas Banate (Serbo-Croatian: Vrbaska banovina, Врбаска бановина) was a province (banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. It was named after the Vrbas River and consisted mostly of territory in western Bosnia (part of historical and present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) with its capital at Banja Luka. Dvor district of present-day Croatia was also part of the Vrbas Banovina.
According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
The population of the Vrbas Banovina in 1931 was 1,037,382. Most numerous religious groups were Orthodox Christians with 600,529 (58%), then Muslims with 250,265 (24%), and finally Roman Catholics with 172,787 (17%).
In 1939, a small portion of the Vrbas Banovina with Croat majority (Derventa and Gradačac) in the northeast was detached and made a part of the newly formed Banovina of Croatia.
In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied Vrbas Banovina and the province was abolished and attached to the Independent State of Croatia. Following World War II, most of the region became part of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia. A Dvor district became part of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.
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