The Slovene National Liberation Committee (SNOS) ( sl, Slovenski narodnoosvobodilni svet; sh, Slovensko narodnooslobodilačko vijeće, Словеначко народноослободилачко веће) was formed as the highest governing organ of

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movement of

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during

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. The president of its

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was

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. SNOS was formed on February 19, 1944 in

Črnomelj 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 ...

when the 120-member

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Plenum, constituted in 1943 by the Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation in

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, opted to change its name to SNOS and proclaim itself as the temporary

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. One of its most important decisions was that after the end of the war Slovenia would become a state within the

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. In spite of the fact the territory was occupied by

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, SNOS was more than just a symbolic entity. Several important institutions functioned under its supervision. For example, it established even a

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on its session on August 19, 1944. Just before the end of the war, on May 5, 1945, the SNOS met for the last time in the town of

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in the

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(then formally still part of the

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) and established the Slovene government with the Communist leader

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as its president.60 Years Since First Post-WWII Slovenian Government
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