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unusual facts about Lower Carniola



Leo von Caprivi

His father's family was of Italian and Slovene origin, their original surname was Kopriva and they originated from Koprivnik (Nesseltal) near Kočevje in the Kočevski Rog (Hornwald) region of Lower Carniola (present-day Slovenia).

Movement for Justice and Development

The movement was founded in a mass rally in the Turjak castle in Lower Carniola, to which several important Slovenian political figures attended, mostly from the left-wing and liberal political spectrum.


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Cviček

In the Middle Ages the Lower Carniola was a constituent part of the March of Carniola, and its wine was named Marvin (from German Marwein from Markwein), which was also mentioned by Valvasor, a seventeenth-century Slovenian historian.

Mekinje

Mekinje nad Stično, a settlement in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica, Lower Carniola, Slovenia

Podturn

Podturn pri Dolenjskih Toplicah, a settlement in the vicinity of the Dolenjske Toplice Spa in Lower Carniola, Slovenia

Slovene Lands in World War II

The Italians occupied the Inner Carniola, the majority of the Lower Carniola and Ljubljana, whereas the Hungarians occupied the major part of Prekmurje.