The Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was established on April 10, 1941, after the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was attacked by the Axis forces. It is technically a monarchy and Italian protectorate under its Italian-born King Aimone, Duke of Aosta ("Tomislav II") but the state is controlled by the governing Fascist Ustaše movement which in turn is under significant German influence. It borders the Greater German Reich to the northwest, the Kingdom of Hungary to the northeast, Military Administration of Serbia (a joint German-Serb government) to the east, Montenegro (an Italian protectorate) to the southeast, Italy along its coastal area, and the Province of Ljubljana (consisting primarily of territory that had been Drava Banovina and is currently Slovenia) t