Vrbas Banovina Vrbaska banovina Врбаска бановина | |||||||||||
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Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
1929–1941 | |||||||||||
Capital | Banja Luka | ||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||
• Type | Devolved autonomous banate | ||||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||||
• 1929–1934 | Alexander I | ||||||||||
• 1934–1941 | Peter II | ||||||||||
Ban | |||||||||||
• 1929–1934 | Svetislav Milosavljević | ||||||||||
• 1941 | Nikola Stojanović | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 3 October 1929 | ||||||||||
3 September 1931 | |||||||||||
6–18 April 1941 | |||||||||||
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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.