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The Zeta Banovina or Zeta Banate (Serbo-Croatian: Зетска бановина/Zetska banovina) was a province (banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of all of the present-day Montenegro as well as adjacent parts of Central Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was named for the Zeta River which also gave its name to the Medieval state of Zeta that roughly corresponded to modern Montenegro. The capital city of the Zeta Banovina was Cetinje.
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According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
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| Praevalitana | |
| Duklja | |
| Crownland of Zeta | |
| Lordship of Zeta | |
| Venetian coastal Montenegro | |
| Sanjak of Montenegro, Ottoman Empire | |
| Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro | |
| Principality of Montenegro | |
| Kingdom of Montenegro | |
| Zeta Oblast | |
| Zeta Banovina | |
| Independent State of Montenegro | |
| Socialist Republic of Montenegro | |
| Republic of Montenegro (federal) | |
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In 1939, ethnic Croatian areas of the Zeta Banovina from the Bay of Kotor to Pelješac including Dubrovnik were merged with a new Banovina of Croatia.
In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the remaining area of the Zeta Banovina. A small area around the Gulf of Kotor was annexed by Fascist Italy while much of the rest was joined with Italian-occupied Montenegro and Albania. Eastern areas were made part of German-occupied Serbia and western areas part of Independent State of Croatia.
Following World War II, the region was divided between Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia.
According to the 1931 census, the Zeta Banovina had a population of 925,516 and an area of 30,741 km².
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