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===World War II=== [[File:Aerial photo of bombing of Podgorica.JPG|thumb|right|{{nowrap|[[Bombing of Podgorica in World War II]]}}]] After the [[Yugoslav coup d'état]] on 27 March 1941, demonstrations supporting the coup took place in Podgorica.{{sfn|Morrison|2009|p=51}} As a result of the coup, Yugoslavia turned against its previous alliance with the Axis powers and was subsequently invaded. Podgorica was [[Bombing of Podgorica in World War II|bombed over 80 times]] throughout the course of the war.<ref name="VTG">{{cite web |url=https://www.vijesti.me/vijesti/glavni-grad-je-47-godina-nosio-pogresno-ime-kako-je-titovgrad-postao-titograd-1007157 |author=Boban Novović |work=[[Vijesti]] |title=Glavni grad je 47 godina nosio pogrešno ime: Kako je Titovgrad postao Titograd? |language=sr |format=via [[Wayback Machine]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006121835/https://www.vijesti.me/vijesti/glavni-grad-je-47-godina-nosio-pogresno-ime-kako-je-titovgrad-postao-titograd-1007157 |archive-date=6 October 2018}}</ref> The city was first bombed by the [[Luftwaffe]] on 6 April 1941. On 5 May 1944, Podgorica was bombed by the [[United States Army Air Force|USAAF]] in an attack against Axis forces, although the bombardment that day killed approximately 400 civilians.<ref name="Kovacevic57">Kovačević, Branislav. ''Savezničko bombardovanje Crne Gore 1943. – 1944. godine''. Svjedočanstvo. Podgorica, 2003. (pg. 57)</ref> The city was liberated on 19 December 1944. According to the ''Museum of Genocide Victims'', a total of 1,691 people were killed in Podgorica over the course of the war.<ref name="MAKRO">{{cite web |url=http://www.makroekonomija.org/wp-content/uploads/cg-ww2.png |title=Stradanje stanovništva Crne Gore u Drugom svetskom ratu |work=Макроекономија |date=3 September 2016 |access-date=22 September 2019 |archive-date=22 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922222041/http://www.makroekonomija.org/wp-content/uploads/cg-ww2.png |url-status=live}}</ref>
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