List of places named after Josip Broz Tito

During Josip Broz Tito's presidency or dictatorship and in the years following his death in 1980, several places in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and elsewhere were named or renamed in honor of him as part of his cult of personality. Since the end of Yugoslavia, many towns and squares have reverted their names.

Numerous streets and squares were also named after Tito, both in former Yugoslavia as well as elsewhere as an honour to a foreign dignitary.

Cities formerly named after Tito

A total of eight towns and cities were named after Tito. Right after World War II, four municipalities whose role in the partisan resistance movement was perceived as significant gained the adjective "Tito's" (locally Titov/Titova/Titovo), while the capital of the smallest federal republic of Montenegro was renamed Titograd (Tito's grad). After Tito's death in 1980, four more cities were added, for a total of one in each of the Yugoslav six federal republics and two autonomous provinces. These were:

With the dissolution of Yugoslavia, each city was renamed.

Peaks

Streets and squares

Many towns in the countries of former Yugoslavia and in other countries have streets and squares named after him.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Former

Croatia

Former

Zagreb controversy

In February 2008, 2,000 protestors gathered on Zagreb's Josip Broz square, which is the site of the Croatian National Theatre, to demand it be renamed to Theatre Square.[1] However, hundreds of anti-fascists accused this crowd to be revisionist and neo-Ustaše and the attempt to rename it failed.[2] Croatian President Stjepan Mesić publicly opposed the renaming.[3]

Macedonia

Montenegro

Former

Serbia


Former

Slovenia

Ban

In 2011 the Constitutional Court of Slovenia ruled that naming of a new street after Josip Broz Tito was unconstitutional. The court unanimously ruled that Tito symbolizes severe human rights violations, and that naming the street after him glorifies totalitarian regime and violates human dignity. [4] [5] The decision is highly important, because it is the for the first time that the highest national court legally evaluated Tito, his work, and his image.

Italy

Egypt

Ethiopia

Tunisia

Brazil

Cyprus

India

Russia

Angola

Ghana

Asteroid

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ "Thousands of Croatians rally against 'Tito' square". Agence France-Presse (9 February 2008). Accessed 12 November 2009.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Dispute over Name of Zagreb's Tito Square". Balkan Travellers. Accessed 12 November 2009.
  4. ↑ Text of the decision U-I-109/10 of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, issued on 3 October 2011, in Slovenian language: http://odlocitve.us-rs.si/usrs/us-odl.nsf/o/AB6C747BE8DF7AF3C125791F00404CF9
  5. ↑ Naming Street After Tito Unconstitutional. Slovenia Times, 5 October 2011 http://www.sloveniatimes.com/naming-street-after-tito-unconstitutional
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