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Name: Establishment of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

Type: Event

Start: 1943 AD

End: 1945 AD

Parent: World War II (Balkan Theatre)

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Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). .

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  • January 1945: At the onset of winter, the Partisans effectively controlled the entire eastern half of Yugoslavia - Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro - as well as most of the Dalmatian coast.
  • October 1944: Belgrade falls under combined blows of Third Ukrainian Front and Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav Army.
  • October 1944: Partisan-controlled territories in Yugoslavia by september 1944.
  • November 1943: The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ).
  • January 1945: In late September 1944 three Bulgarian armies, some 455,000 strong in total led by General Georgi Marinov Mandjev from the village of Goliamo Sharkovo - Elhovo, entered Yugoslavia with the strategic task of blocking the German forces withdrawing from Greece. Southern and eastern Serbia and Macedonia were liberated within two months.
  • October 1944: The German forces in Serbia are destroyed in the Battle of Belgrade.
  • April 1945: The Croatian army did not leave Sarajevo until 15 April.

  • 1. Partisan offensive in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia


    Were a series of partisan offensives against Axis-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

  • April 1945: On 12 April, the Yugoslav 3rd Army, under the command of Kosta Nađ, forced a crossing of the Drava river. The 3rd Army then fanned out through Podravina, reached a point north of Zagreb, and crossed the old Austrian border with Yugoslavia in the Dravograd sector.
  • May 1945: Battle of Odžak.
  • April 1945: By 20 April, Yugoslavian forces led by Drapšin liberated Lika and the Croatian Littoral, including the islands, and reached the old Yugoslav border with Italy.
  • May 1945: Maribor and Ljubljana were captured by the Partisans.
  • April 1945: On 5 April, Yugoslavian forces aptured Doboj.
  • May 1945: After having captured the Italian territories of Rijeka and Istria from the German LXXXXVII Corps, the Yugoslav 4th Army beated the western Allies to Trieste by one day.
  • May 1945: The German forces in Croatia were still able to reconquer Rijeka Trieste and the region of Istria in May 1945.
  • May 1945: Despite the German capitulation, sporadic fighting still took place in Yugoslavia. On 7 May, Zagreb was evacuated.
  • May 1945: Battle of Poljana.

  • Selected Sources


  • Notiziario Storico dell'arma die carabienieri - N.3 Anno VI. p. 23
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.307
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