Podravina

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Podravina (in Croatian) or Podravje (in Slovenian) is the name for the Drava river basin in Croatia and Slovenia.

[edit] History

Between 1929 and 1941 a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia known as the Drava Banovina existed in the area with capital in Ljubljana. Drava Banovina comprised most of the present-day Slovenia.

Today, one of the counties in Croatia is named Virovitica-Podravina.

[edit] Major cities and towns along the river

Cities and towns in Slovenia:

• Dravograd
• Maribor
• Ptuj

Cities and towns in Croatia:

• Varaždin
• Koprivnica
• Đurđevac
• Pitomača
• Virovitica
• Slatina
• Osijek

[edit] See also

• Virovitica-Podravina County
• Drava Banovina