Liberation Day

File:2013-04-25 Porta san Paolo Roma.jpg

Celebrations of the Italian Liberation Day at Porta San Paolo in Rome, 2013

Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation (as in the Falkland Islands) or the fall of a regime (as in Portugal) or the liberation from both a foreign occupation and a collaborationist regime (as in France and Italy).

List

Country	Date	Year	Event	Name of holiday
Template:Country data Afghanistan	Template:Sort	1989	Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan
Template:Country data Albania	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day
Template:Country data Bangladesh	Template:Sort	1971	Liberation from Pakistan	Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day
Template:Country data Belarus	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Republic Day or Independence Day
Template:Country data Bulgaria	Template:Sort	1878	Creation of the Principality of Bulgaria	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Cambodia	Template:Sort	1979	Liberation from the Khmer Rouge	Victory Day
Template:Country data Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Template:Sort	1997	Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo War	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Cuba	Template:Sort	1959	Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro	Triunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution
Template:Country data Czech Republic	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Den osvobození (Liberation Day)
Template:Country data Denmark	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Befrielsesdagen or Liberation Day
Template:Country data Falkland Islands	Template:Sort	1982	Liberation from Argentina	Liberation Day
Template:Country data France	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime
Template:Country data Greece	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany
Template:Country data Guam	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Japan	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Guernsey (Channel Islands)	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Hong Kong	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Japan, celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997)	Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August)
Template:Country data Hungary	Template:Sort	1945	Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990)	Liberation Day
Template:Country data India	Template:Sort (Goa only)	1961	Liberation of Goa from Portugal	Goa Liberation Day
Template:Country data Israel	28 Iyar	1967	Reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War	Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
Template:Country data Italy	Template:Sort	1945	The victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culmination of the liberation of Italy from German occupation and of the Italian civil war, in the latter phase of World War II.	Festa della Liberazione
Template:Flagicon Ba'athist Iraq	Template:Sort	1988	Liberation of Al-Faw from the Iranian regime and the decisive Iraqi victories that followed.	"Al-Faw Liberation Day"
Template:Country data Jersey (Channel Islands)	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Liberation Day
Template:Country data North Korea Template:Country data South Korea	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Japan	Gwangbokjeol
Template:Country data Kuwait	Template:Sort	1991	Liberation from Iraq
Template:Country data Lebanon	Template:Sort	2000	Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Libya	Template:Sort	2011	Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war
Template:Country data North Macedonia	Template:Sort	1941	Uprising Day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia
Template:Country data Mali	Template:Sort	1968	End of Modibo Keïta's regime
Template:Country data Moldova	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Netherlands	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day
Template:Country data Nicaragua	Template:Sort	1979	Nicaraguan Revolution
Template:Country data Northern Mariana Islands	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Japan
Template:Country data Norway	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany
Template:Country data Poland	November 11	1918	Gained independence from German Empire, Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation.	Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day)
Template:Country data Portugal	Template:Sort	1974	Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos)	Freedom Day
Template:Country data Rwanda	Template:Sort	1994	Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocide	Liberation Day
Template:Country data Slovakia	Template:Sort	1945	Liberation from Nazi Germany	Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom
Template:Country data South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	Template:Sort	1982	Liberation from Argentina
Template:Country data Togo	Template:Sort	1967	Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema	Jour de la Libération
Template:Country data Turkey	Template:Sort	1922	End of the Turkish War of Independence	Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day)
Template:Country data Uganda	Template:Sort	1986	End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime
Template:Country data Ukraine	Template:Sort	1944	Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop	Liberation Day (Ukraine)
Template:Country data Vietnam	Template:Sort	1975	"Day of liberating the South for national reunification"	Reunification Day

File:1982 Liberation Memorial in Stanley (5612271774).jpg

Liberation Memorial in Stanley, Falkland Islands.

See also

• National Day
• Revolution Day