What the records say
- When
- 17 Apr 1941
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 45.72° N, 14.79° E
- Government
- Italy
- Former government
- Yugoslavia
- History
- After the invasion of Yugoslavia, southern Slovenia was annexed by Italy as part of the Italian plan to create a modern Mediterranean Empire..
- Source map
- Southeast Europe · 1:2,000,000 · Freytag and Berndt, Vienna
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Province of Ljubljana
Province in Italian-annexed Slovenia (1941–1943)
The Province of Ljubljana was the central-southern area of Slovenia. In 1941, it was annexed by Fascist Italy, and after 1943 occupied by Nazi Germany. Created on May 3, 1941, it was abolished on May 9, 1945, when the Slovene Partisans and partisans from other parts of Yugoslavia liberated it from the Nazi Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral. Its administrative centre was Ljubljana.
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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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