KOSOVO-MITROVICA DISTRICT IN THE YEARS OF APPROACHING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Abstract

In the years of approaching the Second World War, Kosovo and Metohija belonged to the Vardar, Zeta and Moravian banovinas within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Kosovska Mitrovica district was part of the Zeta Banovina. The majority of Serbs lived in this district. The center of the district, but also of Kosovo and Metohija, was Kosovska Mitrovica. There was the district inspectorate, and the center of the district courts. There were the fewest agricultural households that otherwise dominated Kosovo and Metohija. It was a craft and trade center, it developed industrially, it had a mill, a lathe, a mine Trepča. New buildings, schools, gymnasiums and hospitals were built there. The city had two aqueducts, wells and springs. It had electric lighting, cinemas, hotels, a developed sports life, and the largest number of magazines and newspapers were published there. It was an important center for road and railway traffic. However, the outbreak of the Second World War interrupted the initiated modernization and developed a new consciousness of the people in the Kosovska Mitrovica district, as well as in the whole of Kosovo and Metohija.