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{{Short description|Province in Yugoslavia (1929–1941)}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
| native_name            = Вардарска бановина<br>''Vardarska banovina''
| conventional_long_name = Vardar Banovina
| common_name            = Vardar Banovina
| subdivision            = [[Subdivisions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Banovina]]
| nation                 = [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
| s1                     = Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943){{!}}Kingdom of Albania
| flag_s1                = Flag of Albania (1939–1943).svg
| s2                     = Kingdom of Bulgaria
| flag_s2                = Flag of Bulgaria.svg
| s3                     = German-occupied Serbia
| flag_s3                = Flag of the German Reich (1935–1945).svg             
| year_start             = 1929
| date_start             = 3 October
| event_end              = [[Invasion of Yugoslavia]]
|event_start             = Established
| year_end               = 1941
| date_end               = 6–18 April
| event1                 = [[1931 Yugoslav Constitution]]
| date_event1            = 3 September 1931
|government_type        = [[Devolution|Devolved]] autonomous [[Ban (title)|banate]]
|title_leader           = [[Monarchy of Yugoslavia|Monarch]]
|leader1                = [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]]
|year_leader1           = 1929–1934
|leader2                = [[Peter II of Yugoslavia|Peter II]]
|year_leader2           = 1934–1941
|title_deputy           = [[Ban (title)|Ban]]
|deputy1                = [[Živojin Lazić]]
|year_deputy1           = 1929–1932
|deputy2                = [[Žika Rafajlović]]
|year_deputy2           = 1940–1941
| image_coat             = Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (small).svg
| image_flag             = Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (state).svg
| image_map              = Locator map Vardar Banovina in Yugoslavia 1929-1939.svg
| image_map_caption      = Vardar Banovina (red) within<br />the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow)
| capital                = [[Skopje]]
| stat_area2             = 36,672
| stat_pop1              = 1,323,546
| stat_pop2              = 1,574,243
| stat_year1             = 1921
| stat_year2             = 1931
| today                  = [[Kosovo]]<br />[[North Macedonia]]<br />[[Serbia]]
}}
{{History of North Macedonia}}
The '''Vardar Banovina''', or '''Vardar Banate''' ([[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] and {{langx|sh|Вардарска бановина|translit=Vardarska Banovina}}; {{langx|sq|Banovina e Vardarit|italics=yes}}), was a province ([[Banovinas of Yugoslavia|banate]]) of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] between 1929 and 1941.

==History==
It was located in the southernmost part of the country, encompassing the whole of today's [[North Macedonia]], southern parts of [[Southern and Eastern Serbia]] and southeastern parts of [[Kosovo]] and [[Serbia]]. It was named after the [[Vardar]] River and its administrative capital was the city of [[Skopje]]. According to the 1930 statistics of the Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council<ref>Published in the: Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council, Belgrade 1930</ref> out of the 9 Yugoslav banovinas, the "Vardarska" banovina was the largest at {{convert|38879|km2|abbr=on}}; while its population, was the fourth at 1,386,370 inhabitants. Following the [[First World War]], in [[Vardar Macedonia]] and in the [[Western Outlands]], the local Bulgarian ([[Macedonian Bulgarian]]) population was not recognized and a state-policy of forced [[Serbianisation]] occurred.<ref>Poulton, Hugh (2003). "Macedonians and Albanians as Yugoslavs". In Djokić, Dejan (ed.). Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 123. {{ISBN|9781850656630}}.</ref><ref>Papavizas, George C. (2015). Claiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862-2004. McFarland. pp. 92-93, {{ISBN|9781476610191}}.</ref><ref name="Horowitz765">{{cite journal|last=Horowitz|first=Shale|title=Structural Sources of Post-Communist Market Reform: Economic Structure, Political Culture, and War|journal=International Studies Quarterly|volume=48|issue=4|year=2004|pages=765|doi=10.1111/j.0020-8833.2004.00324.x|doi-access=free}}</ref>  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. According to the 1931 [[Constitution]] of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], the Vardar Banovina was bounded on the north by the boundaries of the [[Zeta Banovina|Zeta]] and [[Morava Banovina]]s, and on the east, south and west by the State frontiers with [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Greece]], and [[Albania]]. In 1941, the [[World War II]] [[Axis powers]] occupied the Vardar Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria, [[Nazi Germany|German]]-occupied [[Serbia (1941–1944)|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]].

==Bans of Vardar Banovina==
*[[Živojin Lazić]] (1929–1932)
*[[Dobrica Matković]] (1932–1933)
*Dragoslav Đorđević (1933–1935)
*Ranko Trifunović (1935–1936)
*Dušan Filipović (1936)
*Dragan Paunović (1936–1937)
*Marko Novaković (1937–1939)
*Vladimir Hajduk-Veljković (1939)
*Aleksandar Cvetković (1939)
*Aleksandar Andrejević (1939–1940)
*[[Žika Rafajlović]] (1940–1941)

==Cities and towns==
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*[[Skopje]] (capital)
*[[Berovo]]
*[[Bitola]]
*[[Bosilegrad]]
*[[Delčevo]]
*[[Debar]]
*[[Dragash]]
*[[Gevgelija]]
*[[Gjilan]]
*[[Gostivar]]
*[[Makedonski Brod]]
*[[Kaçanik]]
*[[Kavadarci]]
*[[Kičevo]]
*[[Kočani]]
*[[Kratovo, North Macedonia|Kratovo]]
*[[Kriva Palanka]]
*[[Kruševo]]
*[[Kumanovo]]
*[[Lebane]]
*[[Leskovac]]
*[[Negotino]]
*[[Ohrid]]
*[[Preševo]]
*[[Prilep]]
*[[Pristina]]
*[[Prizren]]
*[[Radoviš]]
*[[Resen, North Macedonia|Resen]]
*[[Rostuša]]
*[[Strumica]]
*[[Surdulica]]
*[[Suva Reka]]
*[[Sveti Nikole|Sveti Nikola]]
*[[Štip]]
*[[Tetovo]]
*[[Ferizaj]]
*[[Valandovo]]
*[[Veles, North Macedonia|Veles]]
*[[Vladičin Han]]
*[[Vranje]]
{{div col end}}

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Banovine Jugoslavia.png|Map of Yugoslav banovinas in 1929 (The Vardar Banovina is #9)
Vardar003.png|Map of Vardar Banovina
Sobranie - the Macedonian Assembly.JPG|[[Sobranie Palace]], administrative building of Banovina, today [[Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|North Macedonia}}
* [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]
* [[Vardar Macedonia]]
* [[Administrative divisions of Yugoslavia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Vardar Banovina}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091021145008/http://geocities.com/dagtho/yugconst19310903.html The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia]

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