Original scientific paper
THE BORDER CREATION BETWEEN CROATIA AND SERBIA
Ivan Jelić
; Institute of Contemporary History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On the basis of various historical materials, the author explains essential aspects of the border inception between Croatia and Serbia, or Vojvodina. This is the youngest border, going alongside river Danube in Baranja and western Srijem, the northeast territory of the Republic of Croatia. A historical overview of the Croat northeast border changes during che period between 1918 and 1941 is given. The Baranja region was not a constitutive part of Croatia until it was given to Yugoslavia after its coming into existence in 1918; it was part of a Magyar region bearing the same name. Srijem in its entirety, however, was part of Croatia before 1918. In an administrative division of Yugoslavia in banovinas (1929 and 1931), the eastern border of Croatia increasingly receded westward, that is, at the expense of Croatia. At the moment of the constitution of the Croatian Banovina in 1939, the districts of Ilok and Šid were within its borders. The author then presents the period of World War II (1941 – 1945), putting the emphasis on the problems associated with the border formation between Croatia and Serbia (Vojvodina) in light of the partisan leadership politics. The main section of the article discusses the problems associated with final determination of borders between Croatia and Serbia (Vojvodina), focussing on the highest political leadership's actions and the actions of the state institutions in regard to border determination between republics as constitutive bodies of the federal Yugoslav state, created in 1945 (Democratic Federal Yugoslavia). The border determination between Croatia and Serbia, more precisely the Autonomous region of Vojvodina, was done in this context. In that determination, executed in the latter part of 1945, Croatia gained Baranja, but lost parts of Srijem that were within the Croatian Banovina borders of 1939.
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206684
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Publication date:
2.4.1992.
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