The Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation ( sl, Zbor odposlancev slovenskega naroda) or the Kočevje Assembly () was the session held in
Kočevje in what is now southern
Slovenia over the period 1–3 October 1943 by the highest representative body of the anti-fascist Partisan movement in
Slovenia during
World War II. 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 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
Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation met at Kočevje in what then became the German-occupied
Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral. During its deliberations, the Assembly elected the 120-member legislative body known as the
Slovene National Liberation Committee (), 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
Jajce
Jajce (Јајце) is a town and municipality located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 7,172 inhabitants, with ...
, in central
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...
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
Črnomelj (; in older sources also ''Černomelj'', german: Tschernembl''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 4.) is a town in southeastern S ...
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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Slovene Resistance
Slovenia in World War II
Political history of Slovenia
1943 in Slovenia
Anti-fascism in Yugoslavia
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