Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia

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Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia that is Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia were created during the Second World War and throughout the existence of Second Yugoslavia. With the end of Yugoslavia, these decorations stopped to be awarded and are now valuable collectables and.

On the 15^th of March 1943 first decorations were created: Order of the National hero, Order of the National liberation, Order of the partisan star, Order of the fraternity and unity, Order for courageousness and Medal for courageousness.

By the year 1960 the number of decoration increased to the total of 42 (35 Orders, 6 medals i 1 Commemorative medal). The status of decorations continued for three old army decorations of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Authors of Yugoslavian orders and medals were Antun Augustinčić i Đorđe Andrejević Kun.

World Intellectual Property Organization (L’Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle) is where the orriginals are kept. At this international organization these decorations were, at the request of Yugoslavian government, given the status of official sign indicating control and warranty, which is in other countries and states reserved only for the National seal or some other kind of unicate instrument (exists only in one or two copies) which gives the bearer the official control and warranty.

Nevertheless of this country no longer exists, its decorations are protected by the Article 6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Convention).

Contents 1 Orders 2 Medals 3 Commemorative medal 4 References 5 Sources

[edit] Orders

No.	Order	Depiction	Date of establishment	Rank
1.	Order of the Yugoslavian Star
	Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star		1 February 1954	1. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian Star with sash			6. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian Star with golden wreath			14. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian Star on a necklace			24. of Rank
2.	Order of Freedom		12 June 1945	2. of Rank
3.	Order of the National Hero		15 August 1943	3. of Rank
4.	Order of the Hero of Socialist labour		8 December 1948	4. of Rank
5.	Order of the National liberation		15 August 1943	5. of Rank
6.	Order of the War flag		29 December 1951	7. of Rank
7.	Order of the Yugoslavian flag
	Order of the Yugoslavian flag with sash (I. rank)		26 November 1947	8. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian flag with golden wreath (II. rank)		14 November 1955	19. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian flag with golden star on necklace (III. rank)		26 November 1947	28. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian flag with golden star (IV. rank)			32. of Rank
	Order of the Yugoslavian flag with silver star (V. rank)			35. of Rank
8.	Order of the partisan star
	Order of the partisan star with golden wreath (I. rank)		15 August 1943	9. of Rank
	Order of the partisan star with silver wreath (II. rank)			17. of Rank
	Order of partisan star with rifles (III. rank)			29. of Rank
9.	Order of the Republic
	Order of the Republic with golden wreath (I. rank)		2 July 1960	10. of Rank
	Order of the Republic with silver wreath (II. rank)			18. of Rank
	Order of the Republic with bronze wreath (III. rank)			27. of Rank
10.	Order of merits for the people
	Order of merits for the people with golden star (I. rank)		9 June 1945	11. of Rank
	Order of merits for the people with silver rays (II. rank)			20. of Rank
	Order of merits for the people with silver star (III. rank)			30. of Rank
11.	Order of the brotherhood and unity
	Order of the brotherhood and unity with golden wreath (I. rank)		15 August 1943	12. of Rank
	Order of the brotherhood and unity with silver wreath (II. rank)			21. of Rank
12.	Order of the National army
	Order of the National army with laurer wreath (I. rank)		29 December 1951	13. of Rank
	Order of the National army with golden star (II. rank)			22. of Rank
	Order of the National army with silver star (III. rank)			31. of Rank
13.	Order of Labour
	Order of Labour with the red flag (I. rank)		1 May 1945	15. of Rank
	Order of Labour with golden wreath (II. rank)			25. of Rank
	Order of Labour with silver wreath (III. rank)			33. of Rank
14.	Order of military merits
	Order of military merits with the great star (I. rank)		29 December 1951	16. of Rank
	Order of military merits with golden swords (II. rank)			26. of Rank
	Order for military merits with silver swords (III. rank)			34. of Rank
15.	Order for courageousness		15 August 1943	23. of Rank
16.	Order of the Karađorđe's Star with Swords		28 May 1915	36. of Rank[1]
17.	Order of the White Double-headed Eagle with swords		23 January 1883	37. of Rank[2]

[edit] Medals

Rank	Medal	Depiction	Date of establishment
1.	Golden medal of Miloš Obilić		1851[3]
2.	Medal for courageousness		15 August 1943
3.	Medal of the merits for the people		9 June 1945
4.	Medal of Labour		1 May 1945
5.	Medal for military merits		1 January 1952
6.	Medal for military virtues		29 December 1951
7.	Medal for merits		~

Other medals:

• Commemorative Medal, "Freedom to People - Death to Fascism"
• "30 Years of Victory over Fascism" Medal
• "10 Years of Yugoslav Army" Medal
• "20 Years of Yugoslav People's Army" Medal
• "30 Years of Yugoslav People's Army" Medal
• "40 Years of Yugoslav People's Army" Medal
• "50 Years of Yugoslav People's Army" Medal
• Distinguished Marksman Medal
• President Tito's Visit to India and Burma, 1954-1955
• Medal of the Association of Yugoslav Fighters in the International Brigades in Spain, 1936-1939
• Medal for the best military trainee

[edit] Commemorative medal

Rank	Commemorative medal	Depiction	Date of establishment
1.	Commemorative medal of the Yugoslavian partisans - 1941		14 September 1944

By the former legal standing Commemorative medal of the partisans of 1941 was considered to be the lowest of rank among the orders, since lost that rank to be considered outside of the before mentioned group and listed below medals.

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Web-site of WIPO
• Opća enciklopedija, Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1980.
• Boris Prister, Odlikovanja, Povijesni muzej Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1984.
• Vojni leksikon, Vojnoizdavački zavod, Beograd, 1981.
• Lukasz Gaszewski Web-site
• Zakon o osnovnim pravima lica odlikovanih Ordenom Karađorđeve zvezde s mačevima, Ordenom Belog orla s mačevima i Zlatnom medaljom Obilića ("Službeni list SFRJ", br. 67/72, 22/73, 33/76, 39/77 (Prečišćeni tekst), 53/82, 75/85, 87/89).
• Odluka o ocenjivanju ustavnosti Zakona o stavljanju van snage Zakona o osnovnim pravima lica odlikovanih Ordenom Karađorđeve zvezde s mačevima, Ordenom Belog orla s mačevima i Zlatnom medaljom Obilića ("Službeni list SRJ", br. 14/92).
• Naredba o utvrđivanju visine godišnjeg novčanog primanja po osnovu Ordena narodnog heroja i Ordena Karađorđeve zvezde s mačevima za 1994. godinu ("Službeni list SRJ", br. 36/94).