As regarded the local level the end of World War Two meant the end of the administrative territorial units (municipalities) which had existed till that time. The new authorities took over the administrative territorial division of Slovenia that had been set forward and developed during the war. At the lowest local level villages/places were put forward. In those local units the local public authorities were taking an active part, while in larger places there existed town national liberation committees as well, which were transformed into people's committees in February 1946. Both the local public authorities and the town national liberation committees, as well as later the people's committees, were put on the same level as regarded their competences. In the periodfrom 1952 on by the side of the capital Ljubljana, there were five more towns (Celje, Maribor, Kranj, Jesenice and Bled). In the spring of 1952 the villages/places were abolished and substituted by territorially larger municipalities, three of them, from 1954 on only two towns and two kinds of town municipalities. This form of administrative territorial division was abolished in the middle of 1955, when large municipalities, called communes, were established. With some changes, they were maintained up to the administrative territorial reform at the end of the year 1994.