Užice Republic
| Republic of Užice | |||||
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Užička republika Ужичка република |
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| Partisan Liberated Territory | |||||
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| Capital | Užice | ||||
| Languages |
Serbo-Croatian (de facto Užičan dialect) |
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| Government | Socialist republic | ||||
| Chairmanb | Dragojlo Dudić | ||||
| General Secretaryc | Josip Broz Tito | ||||
| Legislature | Central Committee for Liberated Territory | ||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||
| • | Partisan arrival 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 | |||
| a. | Hey, Slavs and other Partisan songs were unofficially used. | ||||
| b. | Chairman of the Main Peoples Council of Serbia. | ||||
| c. | General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and Commander in Chief of the Partisans. | ||||
The Republic of Užice (Serbo-Croatian: Užička republika / Ужичка република) was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1941 in occupied Yugoslavia, more specifically the western part of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. The Republic was established by the Partisan resistance movement and its administrative center was in the town of Užice.
The Republic of Užice comprised a large portion of western part of the occupied territory and had a population of more than 300,000 (according to another source, nearly one million). It was located between the Valjevo–Bajina Bašta line in the north, the river Drina on the west, the river Zapadna Morava in the east, and the Raška region to the south.
Different sources provide differing information about the size of the republic: according to some sources, it included 15,000 or 20,000 square kilometres.
The government was made of "people's councils" (odbori), and the Communists opened schools and published a newspaper, Borba (meaning "Struggle"). They even managed to run a postal system and around 145 km of railway and operated an ammunition factory from the vaults beneath the bank in Užice.
In November 1941, in the First anti-Partisan offensive, the German troops occupied this territory again, while the majority of Partisan forces escaped towards Bosnia, Sandžak and Montenegro, re-grouping at Foča in Bosnia.
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