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Jovanka Broz (née Budisavljević; Serbian Cyrillic: Јованка Броз, née Будисављевић; 7 December 1924 – 20 October 2013) was the First Lady of Yugoslavia as the wife of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. She was a lieutenant colonel in the Yugoslav People's Army. She was married to Tito from 1952 until his death in 1980.
Haas met Tito in Paris in 1937, [2] a year after he had divorced his first wife, Pelagija "Polka" Belousova. In 1940, Haas travelled to Istanbul to deliver a passport to Tito, who was returning from a trip to Moscow. [2] Their relationship soon turned romantic, according to Tito's authorized biography, The Loves of Josip Broz Tito. [2]
Josip Broz (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz] ⓘ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (/ ˈ t iː t oʊ /; [1] Тито, pronounced), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. [2]
In the central part, following his personal wish, Tito was buried in May 1980. His third and last wife Jovanka Broz was buried next to him in 2013. The permanent exhibitions in the House of Flowers consist of local, republic, and federal Relays of Youth from the period after 1957, from when 25 May was celebrated as Youth Day. Besides that ...
Josip Broz Tito was the only person to occupy the office. Tito was also concurrently President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Tito was eventually declared president for life and with his death in 1980 the office was discontinued and the new office of President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia took its place.
The only person to ever hold the title of "Marshal of Yugoslavia" was Josip Broz Tito, with the term "Marshal" becoming synonymous with his name in Yugoslavia. He received it at the second session of AVNOJ in the Bosnian town of Jajce on 30 November 1943, and held it until his death on 4 May 1980. [1] Tito had more than 70 different marshal ...
Jovanka Broz, the former First Lady of Yugoslavia, wife of Josip Broz Tito; Jovanka Houska, English chess player; Tegan Jovanka, a fictional character in the television series Doctor Who; Jovanka (Slavic folklore), a named vila (nymph) in Slavic mythology
[108] [107] Throughout her travels, she became friends with Richard Nixon, [109] Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, and Josip Broz Tito. [107] She traveled to Iraq to secure oil and to Libya for a peace treaty with the Moro National Liberation Front .