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4 unusual facts about France Prešeren


Carantanians

Several rebellions of the Carantanians against the Christianisations occurred in the late 8th century, which later served as the source of inspiration of the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren in his magnum opus, the Baptism on the Savica.

Kmetijske in rokodelske novice

Matija Majar's manifesto on United Slovenia was first published in the newspaper, as was France Prešeren's poem Zdravljica, the 7th stanza of which would later become the Slovenian national anthem.

Laibacher Zeitung

Its contributors were the Slovene national poet France Prešeren and other influential Slovene intellectuals such as Matija Čop, Miha Kastelic, Franc Malavašič, and Janez Bleiweis.

Nenad Firšt

(The prestigious awards are named in honour of Slovenia's national poet, France Prešeren).


Čop Street

In 1949, it was renamed Čop Street after Matija Čop, an early 19th-century literary figure and close friend of the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren.

Oton Župančič

In 1940, Župančič collaborated in the production of the documentary O, Vrba that presented the Prešeren House, where the Slovene national poet France Prešeren was born, and his birth village of Vrba.

St. James's Bridge

Four bronze relief plaques depicting scenes from The Water Man, a Ljubljana-related Romantic ballad of the poet France Prešeren, were intended to be put on the fence of the bridge.


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