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World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia

World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Date 11 October 1941 – 23 November 1944
(3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 5 days)
Location parts of the wider region of Macedonia
Result Formation of PR Macedonia as part of the FPR Yugoslavia
Territorial
changes		 Part of Vardar Banovina (Vardar Macedonia) became SR Macedonia as part of SFR Yugoslavia
Belligerents
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisans
Flag of the Bulgarian Homeland Front.svg (from September 1944)		 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Chetniks

Axis:
 Germany
 Italy
 Bulgaria (until September 1944)
Albania Albanian Kingdom

Axis-affiliated faction:
Pećanac Chetniks

Albania Balli Kombëtar
Commanders and leaders
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Mihajlo Apostoloski (commander and leader of the Macedonian Partisans, commander de-facto
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito (limited influence and control, commander de-jure)
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo (link between Mihajlo Apostolski and Josip Broz Tito, supervisor)
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Metodija Andonov-Čento 		Kingdom of Yugoslavia Draža Mihailović
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Stojan Krstić

Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
Kingdom of Italy Benito Mussolini
Kingdom of BulgariaBogdan Filov
Kosta Pećanac

Albania Xhemo Hasa †
AlbaniaMefail Shehu †
AlbaniaGajur Deralla †
Strength
66,000 (late 1944)

~60,000 (1944)

~8,000 Chetniks
Casualties and losses
6,724 dead

Total casualties: 24,000
By nationality:
(7,000 Jews, 6,724 Ethnic Macedonians, 6,000 Serbs, 4,000 Albanians)

By affiliation:
(2,000 civilians, 1,000 collaborationists, 14,000 Yugoslav Partisans and Yugoslav soldiers, 7,000 victims of concentration camps)

Other:
(1,000 Bulgarians, Aromanians, Roma and Turks)

Axis:
 Germany
 Italy
 Bulgaria (until September 1944)
Albania Albanian Kingdom

Axis-affiliated faction:
Pećanac Chetniks


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