The Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation ( sl, Zbor odposlancev slovenskega naroda) or the Kočevje Assembly () was the session held in

Kočevje Kočevje (; german: Gottschee; ''Göttscheab'' or ''Gətscheab'' in the local Gottscheerish dialect; it, Cocevie) is a city in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality. Geography The town is loc ...

in what is now southern

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over the period 1–3 October 1943 by the highest representative body of the anti-fascist Partisan movement in

during

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. The assembly elected the legislative body of the Slovene liberated areas. In September 1943, just as the Italians capitulated to the Allies, the

Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation ( sl, Osvobodilna fronta slovenskega naroda), or simply Liberation Front (''Osvobodilna fronta'', OF), originally called the Anti-Imperialist Front (''Protiimperialistična fronta'', PIF), was a Slovene ...

conducted public elections in liberated areas of the Italian-annexed

Province of Ljubljana The Province of Ljubljana ( it, Provincia di Lubiana, sl, Ljubljanska pokrajina, german: Provinz Laibach) 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 ...

. The 572 of the directly elected and 78 indirectly elected delegates of the

met at Kočevje in what then became the German-occupied

Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral The Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (german: Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK; or colloquially: ''Operationszone Adria''; it, Zona d'operazioni del Litorale adriatico; hr, Operativna zona Jadransko primorje; sl, Operacijs ...

. During its deliberations, the Assembly elected the 120-member legislative body known as the

Slovene National Liberation Committee The Slovene National Liberation Committee (SNOS) ( sl, Slovenski narodnoosvobodilni svet; sh, Slovensko narodnooslobodilačko vijeće, Словеначко народноослободилачко веће) was formed as the highest governing organ ...

(), and the Presidium of the Committee assumed executive powers. The Committee sent representatives to the second session of

AVNOJ The Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia,, mk, Антифашистичко собрание за народно ослободување на Југославија commonly abbreviated as the AVNOJ, was a deliberat ...

held at

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, in central

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on 29 November 1943. They were instrumental in adding the self-determination clause to the resolution on the establishment of the future federal Yugoslavia. At the Črnomelj Session on 19–20 February 1944, the Slovene National Liberation Committee renamed itself to the Slovene National Liberation Council (, ). It was the Slovene equivalent of similar councils established by the Partisans in other regions of Yugoslavia. After its creation, SNOS acceded to all decisions of the second session of AVNOJ and also established an interim government.

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