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