Republic of Užice

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Ужичка република
Užička republika
Republic of Užice
Unrecognized state
←
1941 →
Anthem
No official anthem specified¹
Location of Užice
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.

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[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"). They even managed to run a postal system and around 145km of railway and operated an ammunition factory from the vaults beneath the bank in Užice[2].

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, re-grouping at Foča in Bosnia.

[edit] Trivia

The 1974 historical movie Užička Republika ("The Republic of Užice") [1] covers the events surrounding 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] References

  1. ^ "Novo vreme", government newspapers of Nedić's Serbia (November 1941.)
  2. ^ The Balkans Misha Glenny, 1999, p487

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