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3 unusual facts about Slovene


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Ficzkó was praised for having contributed extraordinarily to the development of self-esteem and identity of the Burgenland Croats by using their language (which was not his mothertongue, as he was of Slovene origin) in writing.

Slovene

Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia

The Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia


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Grohar (1867–1911) was an Impressionist painter and is considered one of the leading figures of Slovene impressionism.

Ágoston

Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian

Aleksandar Vasiljević

Vasiljević was instrumental in the JBTZ-trial as he was the interrogation official responsible to talking with Janez Janša which was centered around Slovene dissidents and publishing of sensitive information in the youth magazine Mladina.

Andreas Wellinger

He won the summer Grand prix FIS Ski Jumping in 2013, ahead of Slovene ski jumper Jernej Damjan.

Andrej E. Skubic

Among others he has translated into Slovene works by Irvine Welsh, Flann O'Brien, Patrick McCabe, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Gertrude Stein.

Anton Janežič

In 1858, the magazine merged with the journal Vaje edited by Simon Jenko, Valentin Zarnik, and Janez Mencinger, to form the magazine Slovenski glasnik (The Slovene Herald), which attracted the collaboration of many important authors, including Fran Erjavec and Josip Jurčič.

Bogumil Vošnjak

In 1902, he published his travelogue in Slovene under the title Zapiski mladega popotnika ("Notes of a Young Traveller").

Brdo pri Lukovici

The Slovene writer and politician Janko Kersnik was born at the castle in 1852 and was also its owner from 1883 until his death in 1897.

Celje Castle

Celje Castle (also known as Celje Upper Castle or Old Castle) (Slovene Celjski grad, Celjski zgornji grad or Stari grad) is a castle ruin in Celje, Slovenia, formerly the seat of the Counts of Celje.

Ciril Kotnik

During this time, he established contacts with the political activist Janko Kralj, and Slovene emigrant from Gorizia, who also helped many anti-Nazis and Jews to escape persecution.

Ciril Ribičič

The congress ended in the dissolution of the Yugoslav Communist Party, after the Slovene delegation decided to withdraw in protest against the domination of Serbian Communists who had embraced Serbian nationalism.

Danish language

Similar constructions are found in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, certain varieties of Norwegian, Slovene and Arabic as well as in archaic and dialect English (compare the line "Four-and-twenty blackbirds" in the old nursery rhyme.)

Dušan Jelinčič

Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer travelogues, which has been an important current within Slovene literature since the fin-de-siecle period.

Evald

Evald Flisar (born 1945), Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator

Ferenc Marics

He found the so-called Ruzsics Hymnal, a Slovene hymnal edited by a teacher named Ruzsics (first name unknown) around 1789.

Fužine

Fusine in Valromana, a frazione of Tarvisio, Italy, known as Fužine in Slovene

Gitschtal

Gitschtal (Slovene: Višprijska dolina) is a town in the district of Hermagor in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović (born 24 March 1953) is a Slovene poet, essayist, writer, editor and potter.

Ig Castle

During World War II, it served as an outpost for Italian carabinieri and Slovene collaborators; in 1944, it was attacked and burned down by Partisans.

Illyricus

Bogumil Vošnjak (1882–1955), a Slovene and Yugoslav jurist, politician, diplomat, author and legal historian

Josip Ferfolja

He attended high school in Gorizia, an important Slovene educational centre at the time; Ferfolja's school friends included historian Bogumil Vošnjak, economist Milko Brezigar, poet Alojz Gradnik, writer Ivan Pregelj, literary historian Avgust Žigon, and the prelate Luigi Fogar.

Kmetija

Kmetija ("The Farm") is a Slovene reality show based on the Swedish franchise Farmen by Strix.

Lavo Čermelj

In the 1930s, he was among one of the foremost representatives of Slovene anti-Fascist émigrés from the Italian-administered Julian March, together with Josip Vilfan, Ivan Marija Čok, and Engelbert Besednjak.

Mala Kostrevnica

The name Kostrevnica is derived from the Slovene plant name kostreva (or kostreba), referring to cockspur grass or rye brome, thus reflecting the local vegetation.

Marij Pregelj

He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations three times: in 1949 for his illustrations of France Bevk's collection of stories Otroška leta (My Childhood Years), in 1957 for Jack London's White Fang (Slovene title: Beli očnjak) and in 1959 for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Slovene title: Starec in morje).

Matija Jama

In his later period, Jama worked together with other Slovene impressionists, in particular with Rihard Jakopič, with whom he worked in Donji Čemehovec and Kraljevec na Sutli.

Matija Majar

Influenced by the Illyrian Movement in Croatia, especially by the Slovene-Croatian poet and activist Stanko Vraz, Majar started developing Pan-Slavic ideals.

Mátyás Godina

He went to school in Surd in Somogy county, where he lived and worked with two Slovene littérateurs: István Küzmics and Mihály Bakos.

Milje

Muggia, or Milje in Slovene, a settlement and a commune of Italy

Nadina Abarth-Zerjav

Nadina Abarth-Žerjav (née Žerjav) (March 5, 1912, Görz (Gorizia) – September 17, 2000, Ljubljana) was the daughter of the Slovene politician and lawyer minister Gregor Žerjav and his wife, Milena née Lavrenčič.

Osojnica

Related names in Slovene ethnic territory include Osojnik, Ossiach (in Austria), and Oseacco (in the Resia Valley in Italy).

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.

Rákóczi's War of Independence

The Hungarian Slovenes from the counties of Murska Sobota, Lendava and Szentgotthárd joined the fight against the Habsburg soldiers, since the Styrian forces several times foraged in the Slovene villages.

RTV Slovenia Big Band

It was established right after World War II by Slovene conductor and composer Bojan Adamič (1912-1995), assembling some of its members already in Slovene Partisans that made first public appearance in June 1945 as part of the reopening of the Postojna Cave.

Scouting and Guiding in Slovenia

The first Slovene Scout and Guide camp was organized during the summer of 1923 at a Slovene alpine resort.

Šempas

The Slovene name is derived from šent Pas, referring to either Saint Bassus of Lucera or Saint Bassus of Nice, to whom the parish church was formerly dedicated.

Šentvid pri Zavodnju

On 22 February 1944 the Slovene poet and Yugoslav people's hero Karel Destovnik (a.k.a. Kajuh) was killed in fighting with German troops in the hamlet of Žlebnik south of the main settlement.

Slovene Scouts and Guides in Carinthia

The first Scout group of the Slovene-speaking minority was founded in 1959 by the Catholic priest Janez Rovan SDB in Klagenfurt.

Slovene Union

Several public figures of the Slovene minority in Italy have been public supporters of the Slovene Union, including the authors Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, historian Jože Pirjevec, journalist, editor and historian Ivo Jevnikar and others.

Slovenski glasnik

Among the contributors were the most important Slovene writers of the period, namely Simon Jenko, Josip Jurčič, Fran Erjavec, Valentin Mandelc and Fran Levstik.

Stara Loka

It is one of the oldest Slovene settlements first mentioned in documents concerning the lands Emperor Otto II granted to Bishop Abraham of Freising in the Duchy of Bavaria, dating to 973 AD.

Tin Vodopivec

He worked as a producer, director, actor and co-writer of the talk show Gofla, which was a part of marketing campaign for the Slovene's largest mobile operator.

Veno Taufer

During the war in Bosnia, he personally visited the besieged city of Sarajevo, together with Drago Jančar, Niko Grafenauer and Boris A. Novak, to take supplies collected by the Slovene Writers' Association to the civilian population.

Vinko Ošlak

From 1989 to 2006, Ošlak has worked as an official at the Slovene section of the Catholic Action for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk.

Windows XP themes

Luna (the Moon in Latin, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Serbian and Russian) is the codename for the default visual theme of Windows XP.

Zablujena generacija

Zablujena generacija (Delusive or Stray generation) is a Slovene "saloon" punk - alternative rock musical group from Idrija.

Željne

This name was borrowed into Gottschee German as Seele, and the modern Slovene name Željne was then re-borrowed from the German dative plural form in Seelen 'in Željne'.

Žerjavka

The name is based on the Slovene common noun žerjav 'crane', referring to the local fauna, and is additionally confirmed by the Middle High German attestations, which contain the root kranech 'crane'.


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