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Historical background of the Banovina Palace

Banovina Palace, the present complex of the Executive Council and the Assembly of the AP Vojvodina, was the focal point of the Banovina administration and the Governor of the Danube Banovina in the period from 1939 until 1941, since between two wars, more precisely from 3rd October 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was split into 9 banovinas and those included: Banovina of Sava, Banovina of Primorje, Banovina of Drava, Banovina of Drina, Banovina of Zeta, Banovina of Morava, Banovina of Vardar, Banovina of Vrbas and Banovina of Danube.

Banovina of Danube covered the area of Baranja, Banat, Bačka, Srem, Šumadija and Stig. Banovina Palace, nowadays the building of the AP Vojvodina Assembly, used to be the residence of the Danube Banovina Governor. The Monarch (governorship, later on) appointed only the trustworthy people as governors, by the decree, who had the highest political and administrative power. However, only the last three out of eleven governors of the Danube Banovina could enjoy in the comfort of this complex, which had been created for almost a full decade according to the design of an architect Dragiša Brašovan.

After the occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Banovina Palace was the headquarters of the Military Administration and National Police.

After the Second World War and throughout the mid-fifties, in the representative rooms of Banovina Palace, beside the seat of the National Assembly of Vojvodina promulgated by the Constitution of FNRJ of 31st January 1946, there also was the Military Club, in which various cultural events took place.

High-sounding governor titles were held by:

An engineer Daka Popović
(1929-1930)


Radosav Dunjić
(1930)


General Svetomir Lj. Matić
(1930-1931)


Milan Nikolić
(1931-1933)


Dobrica Matković
(1933-1935)


Milojko Vasović
(1935)


Svetislav Paunović
(1935-1936)


Svetislav Rajić
(1936-1939)


Jovan I. Radivojević PhD
(1939-1940)


Branko Kijurina PhD
(1940-1941)


Milorad Vlaškalin PhD
(1941)


During the Second World War Banovina Palace was the headquarters of the Hungarian Military Administration for Bačka of the general Bela Novakovič. After the liberation and throughout the mid-fifties, beside the Government and the Assembly, there was the Military Club in which various cultural events took place. Upon the completion of the Second World War, the presidents of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina were as follows:

Aleksandar Šević
(1945-1946)


Mateja Matejić
(1946-1947)


Ivan Melvinger PhD
(1946-1947)


Đorđe Marinković
(1946-1947)


Jovan Doroški PhD
(1947-1948)


Đurica Jojkić
(1947-1948, 1948-1950)


Isa Jovanović
(1947-1948)


Petar Milovanović
(1950-1951)


Danilo Kekić
(1951-1953)


Luka Mrkšić
(1953-1958)


Stevan Doronjski
(1953-1958, 1958-1963)


Radovan Vlajković
(1963-1967)


Ilija Rajačić
(1967-1969, 1969-1973)


Sreta Kovačević
(1973)


Vilmoš Molnar
(1974-1978, 1978-1982)


Đorđe Stojšić
(1982-1983)


Istvan Rajcan
(1983-1984)


Dobrivoj Radić
(1984-1985, 1986-1987, 1987-1988)


Rudi Sova
(1985-1986)


Živan Marelj
(1988-1989)


acting president Janoš Šreder
(1989)


Branko Kljajić
(1989-1991)


Adam Bokroš Verona
(1989-1991)


Damnjan Radenković
(1991-1992)


Svetislav Krstić
(1992-1993)


Milutin Stojković
(1993-1997)


Živorad Smiljanić
(1997-2000)


Čanak Nenad
(2000-2004)


Kostreš Bojan
(2004-2008)


At present, Banovina Palace is the seat of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.