Moravska Banovina ( Serbohorv. Moravska banovina , Moravska Banovina ) is a province ( banovina ) in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941 .
| Moravian banovina | |
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| serbohorv. Moravska Banovina Moravska banovina | |
| A country |  Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Adm Centre | Niš |
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| Population | |
| Population | 1,435,584 people ( 1931 ) |
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Geography
Moravian Banovina was located in the eastern part of the kingdom, on the territory of modern Central Serbia and North-Eastern Kosovo.
In the south, banovina bordered on Vardar , in the west - with Zetskaya and Drinskaya , in the north - with the Danube banovina and Romania , in the east - with Bulgaria .
Banovina got its name on the Morava River. The city of Niš was considered its administrative center.
History
In 1941, during the Second World War, the countries of the Nazi bloc occupied the Moravian Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria , occupied by the Germans Serbia and Albania under Italian control .
After the war, the region entered the SFRY as part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia .
Population
The religious composition of the population in 1931 [1] :
- Orthodox - 1 364 490
- Roman Catholics - 11 061
- evangelical christians - 268
- other Christians - 299
- Muslims - 58 802
- others - 664
Bans
- George Nestorovich (1929–1931)
- George Drenovac (1931-1932)
- Jeremiah Zivanovich (1932-1935)
- Dobritsa Matkovich (1935–1936)
- Marko Novakovic (1936-1937)
- Predrag Lukic (1937–1938)
- Janichie Krasojevich (1938–1939)
- Milan Nikolic (1939–1941)
- Ivan Djordjevic (1941—1941)