History of Vojvodina - Territory of Present-day Vojvodina Throughout History

Territory of Present-day Vojvodina Throughout History

Banat, Bačka and Syrmia: throughout history, the territory of present day Vojvodina (including regions of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia) has been (entirely or partially) a part of:

• the State of the Scordisci (3rd century BC–1st century AD), with capital in Singidunum (present-day Belgrade),
• Dacia (1st century BC),
• the Roman Empire (1st-5th century),
• the Hun Empire (5th century),
• the Ostrogoth Kingdom (5th century),
• the Gepid Kingdom (5th-6th century),
• the Langobard State (6th century),
• the Byzantine Empire (6th century; 11th-12th century),
• the Avar Khanate (6th-8th century),
• the Frankish Kingdom (8th-9th century),
• the Principality of Pannonian Croatia (9th century),
• the Principality of Lower Pannonia (9th century),
• the Great Moravia (9th century) - according to various sources, Great Moravia included territory of present-day Vojvodina. According to alternative theory presented by Peter Püspöki Nagy, Great Moravia was centered in present-day Serbia: around the river Velika Morava and in present-day Vojvodina,
• the Bulgarian Empire (9th-11th century),
• the Voivodeship of Salan (9th century),
• the Voivodeship of Glad (9th century),
• the Kingdom of Hungary (10th-16th century),
• the Voivodeship of Ahtum (11th century),
• the Voivodeship of Sermon (11th century),
• the Kingdom of Syrmia of Serb king Stefan Dragutin (13th-14th century) - Initially, Stefan Dragutin was vassal of Hungarian king, but later became an independent ruler,
• the realm of Ugrin Csák (13th-14th century) - Initially, Ugrin Csák was an Hungarian nobleman, but later became an independent ruler,
• the Serb state of Jovan Nenad (1526–1527),
• the Ottoman Empire (16th-18th century),
  • the Ottoman vassal duchy of Radoslav Čelnik (1527–1530),
• the Habsburg Monarchy (from 1699 to 1804), including:
  • Military Frontier,
  • Banat of Temeswar (until 1778),
  • Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (which included Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia and Habsburg Kingdom of Slavonia),
• the Austrian Empire (from 1804 to 1867), including:
  • Serbian Vojvodina (1848–1849),
  • Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (1849–1860),
  • Military Frontier,
  • Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (which included Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia and Habsburg Kingdom of Slavonia) - after 1849, Kingdom of Slavonia was a separate Habsburg crownland,
• the Austria-Hungary (from 1867 to 1918), including:
  • Military Frontier (until 1882),
  • Kingdom of Slavonia (until 1868),
  • Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (which included Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia),
• the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918),
• the Banat Republic (1918),
• the Kingdom of Serbia (1918),
• the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929),
• the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941, also during World War - from 1941 to 1944: the area governed by the Military Administration in Serbia, the Independent State of Croatia and Horthy's Hungary),
• the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1944–1992),
• the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003),
• Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006), and,
• since 2006, the independent Serbia (from 1945 to 2006, Serbia, which included autonomous Vojvodina, was a republic within Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro).

Mačva: Through the history, the region of Mačva (whose northern part is within present-day Vojvodina) has been a part of: the Roman Empire (1st-4th century), the Byzantine Empire (4th-5th century; 5th-7th century; 11th-12th century), the Hun Empire (5th century), the Slavic-controlled territories (7th-9th century), the Bulgarian Empire (9th-11th century), the Kingdom of Hungary (12th-13th century; 14th century; 15th century; 16th century), the State of Serb king Stefan Dragutin (13th-14th century), the Serbian Empire (14th century), the State of Nikola Altomanović (14th century), the Moravian Serbia (14th century), the Serbian Despotate (15th century), the Ottoman Empire (15th century; 16th-18th century; 18th-19th century), the Habsburg Monarchy (1718–1739), the Karađorđe's Serbia (1804–1813), the vassal Principality of Serbia (1815–1878), the independent Principality of Serbia (1878–1882), the Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918), the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929), the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941), the Nedić's Serbia (1941–1944), the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1944–1992), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), and Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Since 2006, the region is part of independent Serbia.

An autonomous region named Serbian Vojvodina was proclaimed in the May Assembly, which was organized by local Serbs in 1848. Due to the advance of the Hungarian army in 1849 and disagreements between Serb leaders, the autonomous Serb region ceased to exist in 1849 and the remains of its army joined the Austrian imperial army. Later in that year (1849), after the Austrian and Russian armies defeated the Hungarians, a separate Habsburg crownland named the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar was formed. It existed from 1849 to 1860 and covered a larger territory than the original Serbian Vojvodina. After World War I, in 1918, the Assembly of local Serbs, Bunjevci and other Slavs of Banat, Bačka and Baranja declared the secession of these regions from the Kingdom of Hungary and the creation of an administrative province named Banat, Bačka and Baranja, which joined the Kingdom of Serbia. Its borders with newly-independent Hungary were defined by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). In 1929 the region became a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia named Danube Banovina. From 1944-1945 until the breakup of Yugoslavia it was an autonomous province, of socialist Serbia and Yugoslavia. Together with Kosovo and Metohija, it enjoyed highly autonomous status between 1974 and 1990).