Republic of Užice

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Ужичка република Užička republika Republic of Užice Unrecognized state ← Image:Sin bandera.svg 1941 Image:Sin bandera.svg → Anthem No official anthem specified¹ Image:Uzicka republika2.png The Republic of Užice within World War II Serbia Capital Užice Language(s) Serbo-Croatian (de facto Užičan dialect) Government Socialist republic Chairman² Dragojlo Dudić General Secretary³ Josip Broz Tito Legislature Main People's Council of Serbia Historical era World War II  - Partisans in Užice July 28, 1941  - Battle of Drežnik August 18, 1941  - German ultimatum September 10, 1941  - Liberation of Užice September 24, 1941  - Battle of Kadinjača November 29, 1941  - Conquered December 1, 1941 Currency Yugoslav dinar[citation needed] ¹ Hey, Slavs and other partisan songs were unofficially used ²Chairman of the Main Peoples Council of Serbia ³General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Also Commander in Chief of the Partisans.

The Republic of Užice (Serbo-Croatian: Ужичка република, Užička Republika) was a short-lived military mini-state that existed in Autumn 1941 in the western part of Nazi-occupied Serbia. The Republic was established by the fighters of the Partisan resistance movement and its capital was in the town of Užice.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Trivia 4 References 4.1 General references 4.2 Notes 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Name

The Republic of Užice was also referred to as the Užičan Soviet Republic (Serbian: Ужичка совјетска република, Užička sovjetska republika) or Sovietia (Serbian: Совјетија, Sovjetija). ^[1]

[edit] History

The Republic of Užice comprised almost all of western Serbia and had a population of more than 300,000 people. It was located between the line Valjevo-Bajina Bašta in the north, the river Drina in the west, the river Zapadna Morava in the east, and the Sandžak region in the south.

The government was made of "people's councils" (odbors), and the Communists opened schools and published a newspaper, Borba (meaning "Struggle").

In November 1941, in so-called first offensive, the German troops occupied this territory again, while the majority of Partisan forces escaped towards Bosnia, Sandžak and Montenegro.

[edit] Trivia

A historical movie named "Užička Republika" ("the Republic of Užice") was made in 1974. [1] The movie speak about events during the existence of the Republic of Užice.

[edit] References

[edit] General references

• Venceslav Glišić, Užička republika, Beograd, 1986.
• Јован Радовановић, 67 дана Ужичке републике, Београд, 1972. (прво издање 1961.)
• Boško N. Kostić, Za istoriju naših dana, Lille, France, 1949.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Novo vreme", government newspapers of Nedić's Serbia (November 1941.)

[edit] See also

• Former countries in Europe after 1815
• Serbia (1941-1944)
• Partisans (Yugoslavia)

[edit] External links

• Modern Serbia - Revolution and the antifascist struggle (Encyclopædia Britannica)
• Opština Užice
• Western Serbia
• Bošnjaci u drugom svjetskom ratu: Užička republika - Prva neprijateljska ofanzivahr:Užička Republika

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