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2 unusual facts about Slovenes


Slovene

Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia

Slovenes

To suppress the mounting resistance by the Slovene Partisans, Mario Roatta adopted draconian measures of summary executions, hostage-taking, reprisals, internments, and the burning of houses and whole villages.


Alexander of Serbia

Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888-1934), King of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Battle of Kokovo

The battle spawned a myth among the Slovenes that the 600 peasants and their "king" Matjaž did not die, but actually sheltered in the nearby Uršlja Gora mountain and are sleeping there.

Bruno Vespa

When historian Alessandra Kersevan, who was a guest, pointed it out to Vespa that it is Slovenes on the photo who were killed and not vice versa, he did not apologize.

Constitution of 1921

Vidovdan Constitution - first constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes passed on 28 June 1921

Cvetka Lipuš

She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.

Demographics of Montenegro

4 including 354 Slovenes (0.05%), 337 Hungarians (0.05%), 946 Russians (0.15%), 2,054 Egyptians (0.33%), 135 Italians (0.02%), 131 Germans (0.02%), 197 Goran (0.03%),194 Turkish (0.03%), 8,090 others (1,30%), Regional affiliation 1,202 (0.2%), Unknown 30,170 (4.8%)

Edin Osmanović

Edin Osmanović (born 20 May 1964) is a Slovenian-Bosnian UEFA Pro football coach who is currently the head coach of the Slovenian First Football League side Aluminij, a club from Kidričevo that he previously coached from 2004 to 2006 and reprised his position in 2013.

Foreign relations of Slovenia

In addition, unlike the other successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia did not normalize relations with the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (Serbia and Montenegro) until after the passing from power of Slobodan Milošević; although the Slovenes did open a representative office in Podgorica to work with Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović's government.

Genetic studies on Serbs

An analysis of molecular variance based on Y-chromosomal STRs showed that Slavs can be divided into two groups: one encompassing West Slavs, East Slavs, Slovenes, and western Croats, and the other encompassing Bulgarians, Macedonian Slavs, Serbs, Bosniaks, and northern Croats (the latter five populations are South Slavic speakers).

Grega Benedik

Grega Benedik (born May 11, 1962) is a former Slovenian alpine skier who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics in 1984 in Sarajevo and 1988 in Calgary.

Guglielmo Oberdan

His mother was a Slovene woman from Šempas in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, while his father, Valentino Falcier, was a Venetian soldier in the Austrian army.

Hungarian Slovenes

In the 10th century, the western border of the Kingdom of Hungary was fixed on the river Mura, so the region between the Mura and the Rába rivers, known in Slovene as Slovenska krajina and in Hungarian as Vendvidék, inhabited by Slovenes, remained in Hungary.

Iván Fliszár

Iván Fliszár (Ivan Flisar, Janoš Flisar) was an unknown Slovene Lutheran teacher in Hungary.

Jožko Šavli

According to the theory, the Slovenes were not descended from the Slavs that settled the region in the 6th century, but that they were descended from a proto-Slavic speaking people known as the Veneti.

Károly Doncsecz

When he was still alive, travel groups from the motherland Slovenia often visited him in his kétvölgyian workshop, and Doncsecz did not only tell about his craft, but also about biographies of man Slovenes from the Raba region in his mother tongue.

Kazimir Tarman

Kazimir Tarman (born 4 March 1930) is a Slovene professor of Animal Ecology, author of many scientific and popular science books on ecology.

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).

Majda Sepe

Slovenian singers, as Elda Viler, Alenka Godec, Nuša Derenda, Darja Švajger, Vita Mavrič, Irena Vrčkovnik, Oto Pestner, Lado Leskovar, and Anžej Dežan performed her songs with Orchestra Simfonika and Big Band RTV Slovenija.

Miha Krek

He stayed in Rome until 1947, where he organized, together with Ivan Ahčin, a network that helped in the emigration of tens and thousands of Slovenes, especially to Argentina and to the United States.

Military of Slovenia

After a short fight with German Austrian provisional units, the current border was established, which mostly followed the ethnic-linguistic division between Slovenes and ethnic Germans in Styria.

Nikola Pašić

At the time when Benito Mussolini was willing to modify the Treaty of Rapallo, which cut off a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory from the remaining three-quarters of Slovenes living in the Kingdom of SHS, in order to annex the independent state of Rijeka to Italy, Pašić's attempts to correct the borders at Postojna and Idrija were also undermined by regent Alexander preferring "good relations" with Italy.

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Rado Krošelj

Rado Krošelj was a Slovene illustrator and graphic designer who won the Levstik Award in 1952 for his illustrations of the book of poems for children Barčica (The Little Boat) selected and translated by Alojz Gradnik.

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.

Slovene dialects

#The Littoral dialect group (primorska narečna skupina), spoken in most of the Slovenian Littoral (except for the area around Tolmin and Cerkno, where Rovte dialects are spoken) and in the western part of Inner Carniola; it is also spoken by Slovenes in the Italian provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, and in the mountainous areas of eastern Friuli (Venetian Slovenia and Resia).

Slovene language

The language is spoken by about 2.5 million people, mainly in Slovenia, but also by Slovene national minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (around 90,000 in Venetian Slovenia, Resia Valley, Canale Valley, Province of Trieste and in those municipalities of the Province of Gorizia bordering with Slovenia), in southern Carinthia and some parts of Styria in Austria (25,000).

Slovenes in Somogy

The other most relevant reminiscence of Slovene presence is the wedding custom in Tarany, where the figure of the guest caller at weddings, still present in the local traditions of the Slovenes from the Rába and those from the Prekmurje region in Slovenia, has been maintained.

Vladimir Naglič

Vladimir Naglič (1896 – 1966) was a Slovene mariner and translator, known for his contribution to a Slovene Nautical Dictionary (Pomorska Slovenščina) published in 1961 in cooperation with Janez Gradišnik and contributor of nautical terms to the Dictionary of Slovene Literary Language.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Young Slovenes

As a response to what they considered inefficient "cabinet politics", the Young Slovenes organized mass popular rallies in support of the United Slovenia program, modelled after of Daniel O'Connell's monster meetings.

Zablujena generacija

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


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