What the records say
- When
- 23 Sep 1943
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 45.72° N, 14.79° E
- Government
- Germany
- Former government
- Italy
- History
- Germany annexed Southern Slovenia after Mussolini was ousted from power in Italy.
- Source map
- Southeast Europe · 1:2,000,000 · Freytag and Berndt, Vienna
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral
Nazi German administrative unit on the northern Adriatic coast
The Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral was a Nazi German district on the northern Adriatic coast created during World War II in 1943. It was formed out of territories that were previously under Fascist Italian control until its takeover by Germany. It included parts of present-day Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian territories.
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The source
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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- massacre de Pazin4 Oct 1943 · Massacre · Deaths 157
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