Independent Vojvodina

Looking at Kosovo, would an independent Vojvodina be possible? It wasn't part of Serbia until after WWI, and is still maintained as autonomous, if I am correct, so with a POD of after 1900, would there be any way to have Vojvodina become a separate nation?
 
Looking at Kosovo, would an independent Vojvodina be possible? It wasn't part of Serbia until after WWI, and is still maintained as autonomous, if I am correct, so with a POD of after 1900, would there be any way to have Vojvodina become a separate nation?

I doubt it, considering that Vojvodina is majority Serb.
 
I doubt it, considering that Vojvodina is majority Serb.
It might be, but throughout its incoroporation in Yugoslavia and Serbia to this day, it is treated as an autonomous area, instead of being fully incorporated into the country.
 
I think it could be possible if Milošević and his cronies went even more batsh*t crazy than in OTL. Vojvodina, while having a Serb plurality, has generally embraced its multicultural identity in contrast to the rest of the country. If the Serbs/others of Vojvodina feel their balance is threatened by an even more aggressive Milošević regime in Belgrade, I could see them breaking away over the course of the Yugoslav Wars.

Edit: Or later through referendum, as with Montenegro.
 
I think it could be possible if Milošević and his cronies went even more batsh*t crazy than in OTL. Vojvodina, while having a Serb plurality, has generally embraced its multicultural identity in contrast to the rest of the country. If the Serbs/others of Vojvodina feel their balance is threatened by an even more aggressive Milošević regime in Belgrade, I could see them breaking away over the course of the Yugoslav Wars.

Edit: Or later through referendum, as with Montenegro.
So, if the Yugoslav Wars get crazier and Vojvodina remains with Serbia, does it get renamed to Serbia, Vojvodina and Montenegro?:D
 
So, if the Yugoslav Wars get crazier and Vojvodina remains with Serbia, does it get renamed to Serbia, Vojvodina and Montenegro?:D

Heheh, that I actually doubt. Vojvodina had no precedence of being either independent state or a full republic within Yugoslavia, both of which apply to Montenegro. It would be a totally new state.
 
The basic situation with the Yugoslav Republic was that Serbia had two autonomous provinces- Kosovo and Vojvodina, which had the same voting rights as Serbia itself but considered part of it. Miloshevic basically subsumed the independence of the provinces into Serbia, and then puppetised Montenegro giving him half the votes on the council- and with Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina under varying amounts of influence this basically meant control of Yugoslavia.

What we basically need therefore is for a similar disenfranchisment of the local ethnic minorities in Vojvodina as in Kosovo to breed dissent.
 
It may be of interest to look into the Romanian population in Banat. In certain areas afaik you can choose between a Serbian laungauge school or a Romanian. Remove that and you may get enough to be a focal point for what you ask. Mind you its an absurd long shot.
 
Ha! I like that name. Vojvodina. It sounds so Eastern European. I wish it would have been independent then I could say "I'm going to Vojvodina." :)
 
Ha! I like that name. Vojvodina. It sounds so Eastern European. I wish it would have been independent then I could say "I'm going to Vojvodina." :)

It's name is derived from the fact that Serbs within the Austrian Empire were entitle to territorial autonomy within a Voivodeship (essentially a dukedom).
 
Well, if Hungary manages to retain it it might end up independent later on, either during or after the Soviet Era.

Alternatively if the Banat Republic survives somehow and manages to incorporate the other half of Vojvodina it would form the majority of the country.
 
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