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List of places named after Josip Broz Tito

During Josip Broz Tito's presidency and in the years following his death in 1980, several places in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 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. In 2008, 2000 protestors marched on Zagreb's Josip Broz square, which is the site of the Croatian National Theatre, to demand it be renamed to Theatre Square as it was previously.

Cities

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. 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:

Titograd, July 13 1946 - April 2 1992, Podgorica, Montenegro
Titov Drvar, 1981-1991, Drvar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Titova Korenica, December 5 1945 - February 7 1997, Korenica, Croatia
Titova Mitrovica (Albanian Mitrovica e Titos) 1981-1992, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
Titovo Užice, 1946-1992, Užice, central Serbia
Titovo Velenje, 1981-1990, Velenje, Slovenia
Titov Veles, 1946-1992, Veles, Macedonia
Titov Vrbas, 1983-1992, Vrbas, Vojvodina, Province of Serbia

With the end of the Communist Yugoslav regime in the early 1990s and the dissolution of the country, each city was renamed.

Peaks

Titov Vrv (2748 m), Šar mountain, Republic of Macedonia

Streets and squares

Many towns in the countries of former Yugoslavia still (as of 2006) have streets and squares named after him.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bratunac: Ulica maršala Tita
Goražde: Ulica maršala Tita
Jajce: Ulica maršala Tita
Jelah: Titova ulica
Konjic: Ulica maršala Tita
Mostar: Ulica maršala Tita
Novi Travnik: Ulica maršala Tita
Odžak: Titova ulica
Sarajevo: Ulica Maršala Tita (main street)
Tešanj: Ulica maršala Tita
Tuzla: Titova ulica
Zenica: Titova ulica
Živinice: Titova ulica

Croatia

Labin: Titov trg (main square)
Lovran: Šetalište maršala Tita
Matulji: Trg maršala Tita
Opatija: Maršala Tita
Poreč: Obala maršala Tita
Rabac: Obala maršala Tita
Rijeka: Titov trg
Rovinj: Trg maršala Tita
Šibenik: Poljana maršala Tita
Varaždinske toplice: Maršala Tita
Velika Gorica: Trg maršala Tita
Zagreb: Trg maršala Tita (square on which the Croatian National Theatre is situated)
Zaprešić: Ulica maršala Tita