At first Slovenian style polka was just music for ethnic clubs and union halls, but the commercial success of Frankie Yankovic (Jankovič) and other musicians soon introduced the genre to a wider audience.
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The 2007–08 Slovenian Third League was the sixteenth season of the Slovenian Third League, the third highest level in the Slovenian football system.
In 2010, Alma Mater Europaea was officially established, with Prof. dr. Felix Unger being appointed as its first president, while the German political scientist prof. dr. Werner Weidenfeld became the first rector, and the Slovenian lawyer and diplomat prof. dr. Ludvik Toplak the first prorector.
Aljaž Anderle (born 1973) is a prominent Slovenian mixed and ice climber
Similar names based on the same root are common in Slovenian ethnic territory (e.g., Basovizza in Italy and Bezgovica) as well as in other Slavic areas (e.g., Bazje in Croatia, Bzová in the Czech Republic, etc.
Peter Bossman, a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician, the first black mayor in Slovenia
He is associated with much contemporary Slovenian music and has performed works by Lojze Lebič, Ivo Petrić, Uroš Krek, Jani Golob, Tomaž Habe and Vito Žuraj.
His repertoire includes more than 40 violin concertos by composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Wieniawski, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Sibelius, Karol Szymanowski, Khachaturian, Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and also music of Slovenian composers.
Denis Avdić (born 31 January 1982) is a Slovenian comedian and radio host, most known for impersonating politicians in Slovenia, including Janez Janša and Zoran Janković.
In 1987, he was among the authors of the Contributions to the Slovenian National Program, an intellectual manifesto that demanded a democratic, pluralistic and sovereign Slovenian state.
She has published a number of books both in Slovenian and English, including two memoirs (Foreigner in the House of Natives and Forbidden Bread), a biography of Srečko Kosovel titled Srečko Kosovel: Pesnik in jaz, and a novel Anti-Fa cona.
František Lipka is also an important translator of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian literature.
The same autumn one of the largest incidents in Slovenian cheerleading history took place on the way to Maribor, at the train station in Štore, near Celje, considered mostly the fault of the Slovenian Police and weird coincidence.
After graduation in 1961, he mostly made his living as a songwriter, writing the lyrics for a number of Slovenian pop songs, including the 1962 "The Earth is Dancing" which won an award at the first Slovenska popevka festival.
Slovenian names for the hayrack include kozolec and kazuc (colloquial, usually referring to a single straight-line hayrack), stog (commonly found in Upper Carniola and especially in the area around Studor in the Bohinj region), and toplar.
The village of Hrvatini on the Slovenian coast is derived from this surname.
Akrapovič, a Slovenian firm manufacturing motorcycle exhaust systems, is based in Ivančna Gorica.
Josip Iličić (born 29 January 1988 in Prijedor) is a Slovenian footballer, who plays for Serie A side Fiorentina and the Slovenia national team.
The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and it plays an important role in the writing of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.
Stanislava Brezovar or Stanislava Kleiber (1937–2003), Slovenian ballerina
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.
Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966), an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian
Danilo Popivoda, former Slovenian football player of Serbian descents
After serving as speaker of the Socio-Political Chamber of the Slovenian Parliament (1999-1992), as a member of the Parliament (1992–1993), as a rector of the University of Maribor (1993–2002), and as an Ambassador to the Holy See (2002–2006), he is currently the vice-president of Alma Mater Europaea international university and president of its Slovenian campus called Alma Mater Europaea - Evropski center, Maribor.
Erazem Lueger, Slovenian knight of Predjama Castle in the 15th century
At time he spent on Cyprus, he met Nilton Fernandes, who introduced him to Zlatko Zahovič, the director of football at the Slovenian football team Maribor.
He is married to a Serbian triple jumper, Marija Šestak, who switched her nationality to Slovenian after marriage.
Sixty five percent of the annual Croatian border traffic takes place through four international border crossings - Pasjak (with Starod in Ilirska Bistrica municipality on the Slovenian side), Rupa (with Jelšane), Mune (with Starod), and Lipa (with Novokračine) - within the Matulji municipality.
He also served as the president of the Slovenian section of the Catholic Action, and chief editor of the main conservative newspaper Slovenec.
Matjaž Mikloša (b. 1975), Slovenian ski mountaineer and long-distance runner
Iztok Mlakar (born 1961), Slovenian singer-songwriter, chansonnier and theatre actor
My Way Is My Decision is the first single of Slovenian Alpine skier Tina Maze.
In addition, Ilirija's Stanko Tavčar was the only Slovenian player who was capped for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football team in the period between the two world wars.
Durić started out playing for FK Krajina Cazin's U19 team before he was transferred into the senior team where he played for seven months until he was taken into the Slovenian team FC Luka Koper's U19 team.
Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art"), a.k.a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.
She plays for the Slovenian club Krim and for the German national team, having made her international debut on 19 February 1999 against Poland.
In 2002, a documentary film by Slovenian film director Karpo Godina was made about Florjančič's life story.
On 8 January 2012, Slovenian pilot Matevž Lenarčič launched an around-the-world flight attempt from Slovenia in a turbocharged Virus SW914.
The same mountain pass also leads to the Učja Canyon (Uccea), which ends in the Soča valley near the Slovenian village of Žaga.
Another crossing is located in the village of Crociata di Prebenico, Caresana, with the Slovenian village of Osp in Koper municipality.
Weöres' translations into Hungarian were wide and varied, including the works of Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko, the Georgian poet Rustaveli, the Slovenian poets Oton Župančič and Josip Murn Aleksandrov.
Saint Francis Xavier Church, Roman Catholic, was founded in 1948, named after Francis Xavier Pierz, a Slovenian missionary to Native Americans in the area, and largely responsible for attracting the large population of Slovenian, Polish, Bohemian, Slovakian and especially German farmers to the area and their annual bouja stand.
The first attempts to classify Slovenian dialects were made by Izmail Sreznevsky in the early 19th century, followed by Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (focusing on Resia, Venetian Slovenia, Cerkno, and Bled), Karel Štrekelj (focusing on the Karst), and Ivan Scheinig (focusing on Carinthia).
In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie Ples čarovnic (Dance Of The Witches) a Triglav Film production in Slovenian.
However, the incident sparked renewed public debate after the footage was shown on Serbian TV station B92 in 2006, with many claiming that the soldiers were shot and killed by Slovenian TO troops and that Slovenia is trying to cover up the affair.
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The terms were distinctly favourable to Slovenia; it was agreed that Slovenia and Croatia would postpone their independence for three months — which in practical terms had little real impact — and the Slovenian police and armed forces (Slovenian Territorial Defence) were recognised as sovereign on their territory.
The club were responsible for bringing Slovenian Matej Žagar into British League Scene in 2003 and he firmly established himself as one of the Premier League's top riders.
Davorin Trstenjak (1817–1890), Slovenian writer, historian and Roman Catholic priest
Other notable Slovenian poets of the time include, Gregor Strniša, Dane Zajc, Tomaž Šalamun, and Jože Snoj.
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.
The band has participated in a Slovenian contest EMA 2007 for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with a song Kdo hoče plesati z menoj (Who Wants To Dance With Me).