Belgrade City Administration (), was an administrative district of the

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from 1929 to 1941. Its administrative center was

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History

The

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () has been its colloq ...

was formed in 1918 and was initially divided into counties and districts (1918–1922) and administrative oblasts (1922-1929). In 1929, the name of the country was changed to the

and new administrative units known as banovinas (Serbo-Croatian: ''banovine'', бановине) were introduced. The whole country was divided into 9 banovinas, while the area around the capital

was organized as a separate district known as the ''Belgrade City Administration''. Before 1929, the territory of the Belgrade City Administration was divided between the Belgrade Oblast and the Syrmia Oblast. In 1941, following the

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invasion, occupation and partition of Yugoslavia, the district was abolished and most of its territory was incorporated into the newly formed districts of

and Veliki Bečkerek within German-occupied Serbia. A smaller part of the district was attached to Vuka County within the

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Geography

The Belgrade City Administration was completely surrounded by the

Danube Banovina Danube Banovina or Danube Banate ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Dunavska banovina, Дунавска бановина), was a banovina (or province) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical ...

, whose capital was

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. The administration included the city of

, as well as the neighboring cities of

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and

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Demographics

Inhabitants of the district were mainly

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, but members of some other ethnicities (

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, etc) were present in the area.

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