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23-777: From 1929 to 1941, Bosansko Grahovo was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . During World War II , from 1941 to 1945, Bosansko Grahovo was a part of the Axis puppet state the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). Administratively, it belonged to the Grand Parish of Krbava and Psat, established on 16 June 1941. The seat of the Parish was in Bihać . The Kotar of Bosansko Grahovo included

46-497: A vested interest in maintaining the Serb dominance from which he drew most of his legitimacy as King, six of the nine Banovinas ended up with Serb majorities. Instead of uniting Serbs and Croats into a joint Yugoslav identity, there was widespread Croatian resentment against a perceived Serbian hegemony instead. Over the course of the next ten years, the royal dictatorship grew in strength and ruled with authoritarian decrees, climaxing in

69-744: The First World War . This only furthered the resentment felt by the proponents of a federate or confederate state towards the government, particularly the Croatian regionalists of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS) around Stjepan Radić . Radić was shot in parliament by a Serbian delegate in 1928 and died two months later. This provoked the withdrawal of the HRSS from the assembly, forged an anti-Belgrade mindset in Croatia and ultimately led to

92-921: 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 . Since 1992, the area of the former province has been split between Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina within independent Bosnia and Herzegovina . 44°26′27″N 17°11′44″E  /  44.44083°N 17.19556°E  / 44.44083; 17.19556 Banovina of Croatia The Banovina of Croatia or Banate of Croatia ( Serbo-Croatian : Banovina Hrvatska , Бановина Хрватска )

115-555: The World War II Axis Powers occupied Yugoslavia, and establishing a government-in-exile in London. Legally, the Banovina of Croatia remained a part of the occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia, while the Axis proceeded to dismember Yugoslav territory and the Banovina along with it. Some of the coastal areas from Split to Zadar and near the Gulf of Kotor were annexed by Fascist Italy but the remainder

138-752: The Agreement fueled separatism . Maček and other Croats viewed autonomy as a first step toward full Croatian independence, so they began haggling over territory; Serbs attacked Cvetković, charging that the Agreement brought them no return to democracy and no autonomy; Muslims demanded an autonomous Bosnia ; and Slovenes and Montenegrins espoused federalism . Prince Regent Paul appointed a new government with Cvetković as prime minister and Maček as vice prime minister, but it gained little support. In May 1940, fairly free local elections were held in rural municipalities, showing some weakening of support for Maček and Croatian Peasant Party due to poor economic showing. In 1941,

161-555: The Banate of Croatia was created. The entire area of the Sava and Littoral Banovinas was combined and parts of the Vrbas , Zeta , Drina and Danube banovinas (districts Brčko , Derventa , Dubrovnik , Fojnica , Gradačac , Ilok , Šid and Travnik ) were added to form the Banate of Croatia. The borders of the Banate of Croatia are partly the historical borders of Croatia , and partly based on

184-615: The Chetniks during the Bosansko Grahovo massacre . During the Bosnian War , the town was held by Bosnian Serb forces . The Croatian Army captured the city in July 1995, during Operation Summer '95 . The offensive displaced a large number of Serb refugees. After the war, the Serb civilians returned, and today they constitute the majority of the population in the municipality . However, nowadays

207-658: The Croatian regionalists, Vladko Maček . In a compromise named after the two, the Cvetković-Maček Agreement (also known as the Sporazum ), the central government made the concession of merging two of the nine banovinas, Sava and Littoral, into one, the Banovina of Croatia. On the basis of the Cvetković–Maček Agreement, and the Decree on the Banate of Croatia ( Uredba o Banovini Hrvatskoj ) dated 24 August 1939,

230-462: The Vrbas Banovina in 1931 was 1,037,382. Most numerous religious groups were Eastern 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,

253-407: The application of the principle of ethnicity according to which Bosnian and Herzegovinian territory with a majority Croat population was annexed to the Banate. Under the Agreement, central government continued to control defense , internal security , foreign policy , trade , and transport ; but an elected Sabor and a crown-appointed ban would decide internal matters in Croatia. Ironically,

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276-503: The collapse of the constitutional system of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. After fruitless efforts to fix the Serb-Croat divide and Croat abstention from government, including a cabinet headed by the nominally neutral Slovene Anton Korošec , King Alexander I of Yugoslavia intervened and, on 6 January 1929, established the 6 January Dictatorship . On 3 October 1929, the country

299-691: The new state. The new constitution was passed in a political climate favorable to the Serbian centralists, as the Croatian regionalists chose to abstain from parliamentary duty, whereas the deputies of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia were excluded by a parliamentary vote. An amendment to the electoral law in June of 1922 further stacked the deck in favor of the Serbian population, when electoral constituencies were created based on pre-war census figures, allowing Serbia to ignore its massive military casualties sustained in

322-586: The population is much smaller, having declined from 9,000 to about 2,500. [REDACTED]   Una-Sana [REDACTED]   Central Bosnia [REDACTED]   Posavina [REDACTED]   Herzegovina-Neretva [REDACTED]   Tuzla [REDACTED]   West Herzegovina [REDACTED]   Zenica-Doboj [REDACTED]   Sarajevo [REDACTED]   Bosnian Podrinje [REDACTED]   Canton 10 Vrbas Banovina The Vrbas Banovina or Vrbas Banate ( Serbo-Croatian : Vrbaska banovina / Врбаска бановина ),

345-568: The tenure of Milan Stojadinović as Prime Minister between 1936 and 1939. Stojadinović, who had adopted fascist symbolism, gestures and titles from Benito Mussolini in his aspirations to be Yugoslavia's strongman, ultimately fell from grace because he lost the faith of minority representatives in February of 1939. He was replaced by Dragiša Cvetković , who, in an effort to win Croat support for his government, opened talks with Radić's successor as leader of

368-793: The town of Bosansko Grahovo, Crni Lug , Drvar and Trubar . On 1 January 1942, the Kotar of Bosansko Grahovo was transferred to the Grand Parish of Bribir and Sidraga. In the Drvar uprising Grahovo was captured by the Serb rebels commanded by Branko Bogunović . Bogunović joined the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland and in September 1941 he was appointed as commander of the Chetnik Regiment "Gavrilo Princip" from Grahovo. One hundred Croat civilians were murdered by

391-540: Was Ivan Šubašić . In the Vidovdan Constitution of 1921, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had established 33 administrative districts, each headed by a government-appointed prefect. Both the Vidovdan Constitution in general and the administrative districts in particular were part of the design of Nikola Pašić and Svetozar Pribićević to maximize the power of the ethnic Serb population within

414-400: Was Muslim. The banovina was divided into 116 districts ( kotari ) of which 95 had an absolute and 5 had a relative Catholic majority. Although religious in nature as per Yugoslav homogeneity policy, the census also provided insight into ethnic make-up of the banovina as ethnic Croats and Slovenes were predominantly Catholic whereas other ethnicities were not. The Croatian Football Federation

437-489: 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

460-531: Was added to the Independent State of Croatia . As the Kingdom of Yugoslavia became the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia with the success of the Yugoslav Partisans , a new Federal State of Croatia was established within it, succeeding the Banovina. In 1939, the banovina of Croatia had a population of 4,299,430 of which three quarters was Roman Catholic, one-fifth was Orthodox, and 4 percent

483-499: Was an administrative subdivision ( banovina ) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941. It was formed by a merger of Sava and Littoral banovinas into a single autonomous entity, with small parts of the Drina , Zeta , Vrbas and Danube banovinas also included. Its capital was Zagreb and it included most of present-day Croatia along with portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia . Its sole Ban during this period

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506-457: Was officially renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in an effort to unite the various ethnicities into a greater national identity. The new state had a new constitution, and in place of the 33 administrative districts of the Vidovdan Constitution, it instead established the banovinas. The banovinas were drawn in a way to avoid the old historical, regionalist or ethnic affiliations, but because the King still had

529-550: Was the governing body of football within the Banovina. It organized a domestic league and a national team . The Jozo Jakopić -led Banovina of Croatia had four international matches: two pairs of home-and-away matches against Switzerland and Hungary . The Croatian Rowing Championships were held on 29 June 1940. Croatia men's national ice hockey team played its first friendly game against Slovakia on February 9, 1941 in Bratislava and lost 6-1. The Croatian Boxing Federation

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