ROTARY IN YUGOSLAVIA
The country of YUGOSLAVIA was created after the first world war,
and the first Rotary Club was not inaugurated till 1929. In the
period between 1929 and 1939, there was considerable Rotary
activity but the invasion of the Germans during the second war
put a stop to all Rotary activity. As from December 31 1941, the
charters of all Rotary Clubs in the country were terminated.
This remained the case until the ending of the totalitarian
regimes which followed the end of the war.
In more recent times, the former Yugoslavia has been divided
into a series of smaller countries whose independence was
formally recognized in 1991 and 1992. These are
Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia,
Slovenia and Serbia and
Montenegro, sometimes known as the Former Republic of
Yugoslavia.
The pre-war clubs in Yugoslavia were:-
BEOGRAD (Belgrade) which was inaugurated on April 8 1929.
ZAGREB April 29 1929
(Now
Croatia)
OSIJEK December 2 1929
NOVI SAD January 2 1930
SUBOTICA June 21 1930
SUSAK October 20 1930
MARIBOR January 5 1931
VARAZDIN January 19 1931 * A letter in the archives dated 1946
reports on the fate of club members
LJUBLJANA April 28 1931 (Now Slovenia) * A letter in the archives dated 1946
reports on the fate of club members
SARAJEVO April 28 1931
(Now Bosnia Herzegovina)
SPLIT June 19 1931-
PANCEVO June 19 1931
SKOPJE August 26 1931 (Now Macedonia)
VUKOVAR December 23 1932
SIBENIK May 11 1933
DUBROVNIK January 6 1934
BANJA LUKA February 26 1934
ZEMUN April 2 1934
BACKA TOPOLA August 28 1935
BITOLJ August 29 1935
VRSAC August 29 1935
LESKOVAC September 3 1935
SLAVONSKI BROD December 23 1935
NIS August 20 1936
STARI BECEJ February 22 1937
VELIKA KIKINDA March 12 1937
PETROVGRAD March 16 1937
VINKOVA June 1 1937
SOMBOR June 23 1937
STARA KANJIZA September 4 1937
BRCKO August 27 1938
KRANJ January 28 1939
There are now Rotary Clubs in all of the constituent parts of
the old country of Yugoslavia as well as in neighbouring ALBANIA
which, though ethnically linked to parts of the old country,
remained independent. Its first club, Tirana, was chartered in
1992 and is in District 2090 Rotary returned to BOSNIA
HERZEGOVINA in 1999 with the chartering of the Sarajevo Club, to
CROATIA with the Zagreb Club in 1991, to SLOVENIA at Ljubljana
in 1990. These three are now in District 1910. Rotary returned
to SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO in 1992 with the chartering of the
Beograd Club and three years later, the
Skopje Club was
chartered in MACEDONIA. These last two are in District 2480.
Posted 21 December 2005 by
Historian Basil Lewis |
