Dragiša Cvetković

Dragiša Cvetković

Dragiša Cvetković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Цветковић) (15 January 1893, Niš – February 18, 1969, Paris) was a Yugoslav politician.

He served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941. He developed the federalization of Yugoslavia through the creation of the Banovina of Croatia by an agreement with Croatian leader Vladko Maček. See Cvetković-Maček Agreement He left Serbia on September 4, 1944 for Bulgaria, and later to Turkey. He spent the rest of his life in Paris.

On September 25, 2009, the regional court in Cvetković's hometown of Niš rehabilitated him from charges laid against him by the Yugoslav government in 1945.^[1]

References

1. ^ Rehabilitovan Dragiša Cvetković, Politika

Preceded by Milan Stojadinović

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 1939-1941

Succeeded by Dušan Simović

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Name	Cvetkovic, Dragisa
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Date of birth	15 January 1893
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Date of death	February 18, 1969
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