Pot po Jugoslaviji. Put kroz Jugoslaviju game titel translation from both Slovak and Croatian languages - "The way through Yugoslavia".
A mid 1930s Yugoslavian pan-Slavic board-game published in Ljubljana, Slovenia, circa 1935 by a famous illustrator and painter Mirko Šubic (1900-1976).
Mirko Šubic was born in a Slovenian family of artists and architects. He studied art in Munich under Franz von Stuck and Karl J. Becker – Gundhal, in Prague under Vlaho Bukovac, Jakub Obrovský and Vojtech Hynais, and in Dresden under Ferdinand Dorsch in Max Feldbauer. Before the WW II he was active as illustrator and painter. In his later life he became one of the most famous restorers and conservators of Yugoslavia.
The game shows the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the late 1935 and traveling through the most important stops of the country, should increase the pan-Slavic feeling. All the stops on the board are described in the inner side of the box. The instructions end with a rhyme of a Slovene, Croat and Serb always being brothers.
The maps shows the most famous building of Yugoslavia. As most of them are older buildings, Ljubljana is shown with the modern Art Deco building “Nebotičnik” (Skyscaper), the tallest building on the Balkans at the time, finished by 1933. Nebotičnik was the first reinforced concrete building in Europa.
The architect of Nebotičnik, Vladimir Šubic, was a brother of the illustrator of this game, Mirko Šubic.
The map can be dated after the opening of Nebotičnik in 1933 and before 1939, when two regions (banovine) of 9 in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, merged into one. The 8 regions existed until 1941, at the beginning of the WW II.
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