In November 1942, the Partisans captured the town Bihać and secured control over a large part of western Bosnia, Dalmatia and Lika. They named the liberated area the Bihać Republic. On 26 and 27 November, the pan-Yugoslav Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia ("Antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije", AVNOJ) was established in the town at the initiative of Tito and the KPJ. At its founding session, the AVNOJ adopted the principle of a multi-ethnic federal state as the basis for the country's future government but did not officially determine what system of government would be implemented after the war. There was a degree of ambiguity regarding the number of future federal units and whether they would all have equal status within the federation.