Sporazum
The term Sporazum [ ˈspɔrazum ] (Convention) in the Bosnian , Serbian and Croatian languages generally refers to a treaty or a political agreement.
As a foreign word, this term was adopted into German especially for the contract concluded on August 26, 1939 between the Yugoslav government and the Croatian opposition. The Sporazum of 1939 created a Croatian bank that was to enjoy extensive autonomy rights within Yugoslavia .
The previous two decades had been marked by constant conflict between the Serbian-dominated centralist government of Yugoslavia and the federalist-minded Croatians. The existence of the Yugoslav state was threatened by these disputes.
In view of the worsening foreign policy situation immediately before the start of the Second World War, Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković and Vladko Maček , head of the Croatian Peasant Party , were ready to compromise. The Croatians were granted autonomy, but they were supposed to integrate into the state as a whole.
Since Yugoslavia was crushed by the Axis Powers in the Balkan campaign in April 1941, the sporazum no longer had any practical effects. Its success seemed doubtful anyway, because the disputes between Serbs and Croats continued even after the contract was signed. It was mainly about the interpretation of the contract text.
See also: History of Yugoslavia
literature
- Ljubo Boban: Sporazum Cvetković-Maček (= Institut Društvenih Nauka, Odeljenje za Istorijske Nauke. Serija 1: Monografije. Vol. 5). Kultrua, Beograd 1965.
- Mita Dimitrijević: Mi i Hrvati. Hrvatsko pitańe (1914-1939). Sporazum sa Hrvatima. Privrednik, Beograd 1939.
- George Franz Vrbanić: The failure to save the first Yugoslavia. The Serbo-Croatian sporazum of 1939 (= Ziral 60). Chicago IL 1991, ISBN 1-88082-900-2 .