In the period after the Second World War, Ljubljana experienced numerous administrative, political and territorial changes. In the period from 1945 to 1955, Ljubljana received as many as seven administrative and territorial changes. Immediately after the war, the city had the position of a district, which was divided into seven urban districts, which were further divided into 35 quarters; already in the same year in June 1945, it was divided into ten town districts, then from February 1948 into four urban districts and three localities, from March 1949 into four urban districts and one locality, in October of the same year into five urban districts, and in April 1952 Ljubljana was divided into the capital city of Ljubljana and the municipalities of Polje and Šentvid with the new law on the administrative division of the then republic.