Italian partisan republics
The Italian Partisan Republics or Free Zones were the provisional state entities created by Italian partisans in areas liberated from the joint Nazi-Fascist occupation in the summer of 1944, during the Second World War. Located in mountainous and hilly territories of Northern Italy, they were universally short-lived, with most of them being reconquered by the Wehrmacht within weeks of their formal establishments and re-incorporated into the Italian Social Republic.
Description
It was an overall phenomenon of areas that had been liberated by the partisans or had found themselves temporarily free from the rule and occupation of Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic for various reasons, and which have been managed and administered in different forms: either by real "Governments", either by the partisan groups themselves, or by autonomous institutions, always inspired by the creation of a democratic experience.Some of them had the time to produce a relatively structured administrative organization and legislative norms whose principles later passed into the Italian Constitution.
List of Italian Partisan Republics
- Republic of Alba
- Republic of Alto Monferrato
- Republic of Alto Tortonese
- Republic of Bobbio
- Republic of the Cansiglio
- Republic of Carnia
- Republic of Oriental Friuli
- Republic of Pigna
- Republic of the Langhe
- Republic of Ossola
- Republic of the Ceno Valley
- Republic of the Enza Valley and the Parma Valley
- Republic of the Maira Valley and the Varaita Valley
- Republic of the Lanzo Valley
- Republic of the Sesia Valley
- Republic of Varzi