Republic of Užice

	Ужичка република ; Užička republika
	Republic of Užice
	1941
flag	coat of arms
Official language	Serbo-Croatian ( de facto Užice dialect)
Capital	Užice
Form of government	Socialist republic
Head of state , also head of government	Dragojlo Dudić
population	about 300,000
currency	Yugoslav dinar; 1 dinar = 100 para
founding	September 20, 1941
National anthem	No official anthem given 1
License Plate	TU (Titovo Užice)
	1 Hej Sloveni and other JVBA songs were used unofficially. ; 2 President of the Serbian Council of Nations

The Republic of Užice ( Serbian Ужичка република Užička republika ) was a short-lived Yugoslav area liberated from German occupation and the first liberated area in Europe during World War II .

overview

The republic was organized as a military mini-state that existed in the fall of 1941 in Yugoslavia, which was occupied by the Third Reich , from the beginning of September to the end of November 1941. The republic was proclaimed by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army on September 20, 1941, the administrative center of the republic was the city of Užice .

history

The Republic of Užice encompassed all of western Serbia and had a population of more than 300,000 people. It lay between the line Valjevo - Bajina Bašta in the north, the Drina river in the west, the Great Morava in the east and the Raška region in the south.

The government took over people's councils ( Odbors ), the Communists opened schools and published the newspaper Borba (The Struggle). They operated a postal system and an approximately 145 km long railway line. They put the captured ammunition factory in the vaults below the dike in Užice into operation. In November 1941, in the so-called First Anti-Partisan Offensive , the German troops occupied this area again, during which the majority of the partisans fled in the direction of Bosnia , Sandžak and Montenegro .

Cities and larger towns in the Užice Republic
Memorial to the fallen partisans in battle on the Kadinjača hill about 14 km northwest of Užice

Trivia

The historical film from 1974 Užička republika tells the events around the existence of the Užice Republic.

Individual evidence

^ Daniel Müller: The successful resistance in Yugoslavia. How successful was it really? GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94552-3 , pp. 14 (60 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Detlef Brandes: Great Britain and its Eastern European Allies 1939–1943 . In: Publications of the Collegium Carolinum . tape 59 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54531-0 , p. 203 (607 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Daniel Müller: The successful resistance in Yugoslavia. How successful was it really? GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94552-3 , pp. 14 (60 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Detlef Brandes: Great Britain and its Eastern European Allies 1939–1943 . In: Publications of the Collegium Carolinum . tape 59 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54531-0 , p. 203 (607 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).