Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbo-Croatian:
Socijalistička Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina, Социјалистичка Аутономна Покрајина Војводина), also known shortly as
SAP Vojvodina (Cyrillic: САП Војводина), was one of the two socialist
autonomous areaAn autonomous area is an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or freedom from an external authority. Typically it is either geographically distinct from the country or is populated by a national minority. Countries that include autonomous areas are often federacies...
s of the
Socialist Republic of SerbiaSocialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav...
from 1963 to 1990 and one of the federal units of the
Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaThe Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the second half of World War II until it was formally dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,...
from 1974 to 1990. Its capital was
Novi SadNovi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city lies in the southern part of Central Europe's Pannonian Plain, on both banks of the Danube river.Novi Sad is Serbia's second largest city, after Belgrade...
.
The
Autonomous Province of VojvodinaThe Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was an autonomous province of Serbia, within the larger federation of Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1963, when it was replaced by the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.The region of Vojvodina was politically restored in 1945 as a province of...
that was created in 1945 enjoyed only the small level of autonomy within
SerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country located in both Central and Southeastern Europe. Its territory covers the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and central part of the Balkans...
.
Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbo-Croatian:
Socijalistička Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina, Социјалистичка Аутономна Покрајина Војводина), also known shortly as
SAP Vojvodina (Cyrillic: САП Војводина), was one of the two socialist
autonomous areaAn autonomous area is an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or freedom from an external authority. Typically it is either geographically distinct from the country or is populated by a national minority. Countries that include autonomous areas are often federacies...
s of the
Socialist Republic of SerbiaSocialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav...
from 1963 to 1990 and one of the federal units of the
Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaThe Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the second half of World War II until it was formally dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,...
from 1974 to 1990. Its capital was
Novi SadNovi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city lies in the southern part of Central Europe's Pannonian Plain, on both banks of the Danube river.Novi Sad is Serbia's second largest city, after Belgrade...
.
History
The
Autonomous Province of VojvodinaThe Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was an autonomous province of Serbia, within the larger federation of Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1963, when it was replaced by the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.The region of Vojvodina was politically restored in 1945 as a province of...
that was created in 1945 enjoyed only the small level of autonomy within
SerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country located in both Central and Southeastern Europe. Its territory covers the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and central part of the Balkans...
. In 1963, the name of the province was changed to
Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Under the 1974 Yugoslav constitution, the province gained extensive rights of self-rule, which defined Vojvodina as one of the subjects of the Yugoslav federation, and also gave it voting rights equivalent to Serbia itself on the country's collective presidency.
Under the rule of the Serbian president
Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia...
, Vojvodina and
KosovoKosovo is a disputed territory in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo , a self-declared independent state which has de facto control over the territory; the exceptions are some Serb enclaves...
were restored to their pre-1974 status from September 28, 1990. The name of the province was also reverted to
Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
Demographics
According to the 1981 census, the population of the province included:
- Serbs
Serbs are a South Slavic people living in the Central Europe and the Balkans , between the Balkan- and Carpathian mountains in the east and the Adriatic sea in the west. They are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia...
= 1,154,664 (56.5%)
- Hungarians = 385,356 (18.9%)
- Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world...
= 119,157 (5.9%)
- Slovaks
The Slovaks are a western Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language....
= 69,549 (3.4%)
- Romanians
The Romanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian ; they are the majority inhabitants of România.In one prominent interpretation of the census results in Moldova, Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would...
= 47,289 (2.3%)
- Rusyns
Rusyns in Pannonia, or simply Rusyns or Ruthenians , are a Slavic minority in Serbia and Croatia...
and UkrainiansUkrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly—citizens of Ukraine...
= 24,306 (1.2%)
- Others = 238,436 (11.8%)
Politics
The only political party in the province was League of Communists of Vojvodina (
Savez komunista Vojvodine), which was part of the
League of Communists of SerbiaThe League of Communists of Serbia was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches. In the late 1980s, the party was...
(
Savez komunista Srbije) and part of the
League of Communists of YugoslaviaLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia , was a major Communist party in Yugoslavia...
(
Savez komunista Jugoslavije).
The
ConstitutionA constitution is a set of rules for government—often codified as a written document—that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the...
of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (
Ustav Socijalističke Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine) was the higher juridical act of the province.
Institutions
Institutions of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina included:
- Presidency (Predsedništvo)
- Working bodies of presidency (Radna tela predsedništva):
- Council for people's defence (Savet za narodnu odbranu)
- Council for protection of constitutional system (Savet za zaštitu ustavnog poretka)
- Commission for organizational and staff questions (Komisija za organizaciona i kadrovska pitanja)
- Commission for amnesty (Komisija za pomilovanja)
- Commission for applications and suggestions (Komisija za predstavke i predloge)
- Commission for medals (Komisija za odlikovanja)
- Commission for economic reform (Komisija za privrednu reformu)
- Parliament (Skupština)
- Councils of parliament (Veća skupštine):
- Council of associated work (Veće udruženog rada)
- Council of municipalities (Veće opština)
- Social-political council (Društveno-političko veće)
- Provincial committees (Pokrajinski komiteti):
- Provincial committee for energetics and raws (Pokrajinski komitet za energetiku i sirovine)
- Provincial committee for international cooperation (Pokrajinski komitet za međunarodnu saradnju)
- Provincial committee for traffic and connections (Pokrajinski komitet za saobraćaj i veze)
- Provincial committee for water economy (Pokrajinski komitet za vodoprivredu)
- Provincial committee for education and culture (Pokrajinski komitet za obrazovanje i kulturu)
- Provincial committee for work (Pokrajinski komitet za rad)
- Provincial committee for health and social protection (Pokrajinski komitet za zdravlje i socijalnu zaštitu)
- Provincial committee for veteran and invalid questions (Pokrajinski komitet za boračka i invalidska pitanja)
- Provincial committee for urbanism, residential questions and protection of human environment (Pokrajinski komitet za urbanizam, stambena pitanja i zaštitu čovekove sredine)
- Provincial committee for informations (Pokrajinski komitet za informacije)
- Provincial committee for social planning (Pokrajinski komitet za društveno planiranje)
- Provincial committee for legislation (Pokrajinski komitet za zakonodavstvo)
- Provincial committee for science and informatics (Pokrajinski komitet za nauku i informatiku)
- Provincial social councils (Pokrajinski društveni saveti):
- Provincial social council for questions of social regulation (Pokrajinski društveni savet za pitanja društvenog uređenja)
- Provincial social council for economic development and economic politics (Pokrajinski društveni savet za privredni razvoj i ekonomsku politiku)
- Provincial social council for foreign relations (Pokrajinski društveni savet za odnose sa inostranstvom)
- Government (Izvršno veće)
- Provincial bodies of administration (Pokrajinski organi uprave):
- Provincial secretarity for people's defence (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za narodnu odbranu)
- Provincial secretarity for internal affairs (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za unutrašnje poslove)
- Provincial secretarity for jurisdiction and administration (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za pravosuđe i upravu)
- Provincial secretarity for finances (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za finansije)
- Provincial secretarity for industry, construction, and terciar activities (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za industriju, građevinarstvo i tercijarne delatnosti)
- Provincial secretarity for agriculture, food industry and wood industry (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za poljoprivredu, prehrambenu industriju i šumarstvo)
- Provincial secretarity for market, prices, monitoring of economic developments and tourism (Pokrajinski sekretarijat za tržište, cene, praćenje privrednih kretanja i turizam)
- Provincial administrative organizations (Pokrajinske upravne organizacije):
- Provincial establishment for social planning (Pokrajinski zavod za društveno planiranje)
- Provincial establishment for statistics (Pokrajinski zavod za statistiku)
- Provincial establishment for public administration (Pokrajinski zavod za javnu upravu)
- Provincial establishment for international scientific, cultural, educational and technical cooperation (Pokrajinski zavod za međunarodnu naučnu, kulturnu, prosvetnu i tehničku saradnju)
- Provincial establishment for hydro-meteorogy (Pokrajinski hidrometeorološki zavod)
- Provincial establishment for staff affairs (Pokrajinski zavod za kadrovske poslove)
- Provincial establishment for prices and monitoring of economic developments (Pokrajinski zavod za cene i praćenje privrednih kretanja)
- Provincial administration for geodetic and property-juridical affairs (Pokrajinska uprava za geodetske i imovinsko-pravne poslove)
- Administration for budget (Uprava za budžet)
- Provincial administration for social profit (Pokrajinska uprava društvenih prihoda)
- Provincial directorate for stock reserves (Pokrajinska direkcija za robne rezerve)
- Services for general and joint affairs of provincial institutions (Službe za opšte i zajedničke poslove pokrajinskih organa)
- Jurisdictional institutions of SAP Vojvodina (Pravosudni organi SAP Vojvodine):
- Constitutional court of Vojvodina (Ustavni sud Vojvodine)
- Supreme court of Vojvodina (Vrhovni sud Vojvodine)
- Public prosecution of SAP Vojvodina (Javno tužilaštvo SAP Vojvodine)
- Public juristical defence of SAP Vojvodina (Javno pravobranilaštvo SAP Vojvodine)
- Provincial social juristial defender of autonomy (Pokrajinski društveni pravobranilac samoupravljanja)
- Court of associated work (Sud udruženog rada)
Presidents
Presidents of presidency of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina:
- Radovan Vlajković
Radovan Vlajkovic was a Yugoslav politician who served as Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1985 until 1986. He was also Speaker of the Assembly of Vojvodina 1963–1967....
(1974-1981).
- Predrag Vladisavljević (1981-1982).
- Danilo Kekić (1982-1983).
- Đorđe Radosavljević (1983-1984).
- Nandor Major (1984-1985).
- Predrag Vladisavljević (1985-1986).
- Đorđe Radosavljević (1986-1988).
- Nandor Major (1988-1989).
- Jugoslav Kostić (1989-1991).
See also
- Vojvodina
The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census. It is located in the northern part of the country, in the Pannonian plain of Central Europe...
- SAP Kosovo
- History of Vojvodina
This is a history of Vojvodina.Vojvodina is the Serbian name for the territory of Northern Serbia, consisting of the southern part of the Pannonian Plain...
- Socialist Republic of Serbia
Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav...
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the second half of World War II until it was formally dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,...