The Province of Ljubljana (Italian: Provincia di Lubiana, Slovene: Ljubljanska pokrajina, German: Provinz Laibach) was an occupied territory, annexed during Italian occupation of Yugoslavia as new province of the Fascist Kingdom of Italy, and after Italian armistice, occupied by Nazi Germans in Operation Zone of the Adriatic Littoral during World War II, now part of Slovenia.
It was created on May 3, 1941 from Yugoslav territory occupied and annexed to Italy after the Axis invasion and dissolution of Yugoslavia, and it was abolished on May 9, 1945, when the Slovene Partisans and partisans from other parts of Yugoslavia liberated it from Nazi occupation. Its administrative centre was Ljubljana.
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