Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija Демократска Федеративна Југославија Demokratična federativna Jugoslavija
1943–1945
Flag Emblem
Anthem: "Hey, Slavs"
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1945 prior to the Paris Peace Treaties
Status	Communist Party of Yugoslavia-dominated government
Capital and largest city	Belgrade
Official languages	Serbo-Croatian Slovene Macedonian[1][2]
Official script	Cyrillic  • Latin
Demonym(s)	Yugoslav Yugoslavian
Government	Federal provisional government –National Committee (1943–45) –Constitutional monarchy (1943–1945, de jure)
Chairman of the Presidium of the AVNOJ
• 1943–1945	Ivan Ribar
King
• 1943–1945	Peter II
Prime Minister
• 1943–1945	Josip Broz Tito
Legislature	Temporary National Assembly
Historical era	World War II
• Second Session of the AVNOJ	29 November 1943
• Tito–Šubašić Agreement	16 June 1944
• Provisional government formed	7 March 1945
• Admitted to the United Nations	24 October 1945
• Elections	11 November 1945
• Monarchy abolished	29 November 1945
Area
• Total	255,804 km2 (98,766 sq mi)
Currency	Various (1943–1944): Serbian dinar, NDH kuna, Bulgarian lev, Italian lira, Reichsmark (1944–1945): Yugoslav dinar
Time zone	UTC+2 (Central European Time (CET))
Driving side	right
Calling code	38
Preceded by Succeeded by Independent State of Croatia Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia German occupied territory of Montenegro Kingdom of Bulgaria Italian Social Republic Nazi Germany Kingdom of Hungary Albanian Kingdom Yugoslav government-in-exile Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, also known as Democratic Federative Yugoslavia (DF Yugoslavia or DFY), was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). The National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (NKOJ) was its original executive body. Throughout its existence it was governed by Marshal Josip Broz Tito as prime minister.

It was recognized by the Allies at the Tehran Conference, along with the AVNOJ as its deliberative body. The Yugoslav government-in-exile of King Peter II in London, partly due to pressure from the United Kingdom,^[3] recognized the AVNOJ government with the Treaty of Vis, signed on 16 June 1944 between the prime minister of the government-in-exile, Ivan Šubašić, and Tito.^[3] With the Treaty of Vis, the government-in-exile and the NKOJ agreed to merge into a provisional government as soon as possible. The form of the new government was agreed upon in a second Tito–Šubašić agreement signed on 1 November 1944 in the recently liberated Yugoslav capital of Belgrade. DF Yugoslavia became one of the founding members of the United Nations upon the signing of the United Nations Charter in October 1945.

The state was formed to unite the Yugoslav resistance movement to the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. The agreement left the issue of whether the state would be a monarchy or a republic intentionally undecided until after the war had ended so the position of head of state was vacant. After the merger of the governments, the state was reformed as a one-party Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia with Josip Broz Tito as Prime Minister and Ivan Šubašić as minister of foreign affairs.