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Slovene culture is the culture of the Slovenes, a South Slavic ethnic group. It is incredibly diverse for the country's small size, spanning the southern portion of Central Europe, being the melting pot of Slavic, Germanic and Romance cultures while encompassing parts of the Eastern Alps, the Pannonian Basin, the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) identifies intangible cultural heritage as the "non-physical traditions and practices that are performed by a people". As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1]
Potica pastry as part of traditional Slovenian Easter breakfast. Slovenian cuisine (Slovene: slovenska kuhinja) is influenced by the diversity of Slovenia's landscape, climate, history and neighbouring cultures. In 2016, the leading Slovenian ethnologists divided the country into 24 gastronomic regions.
Culture by city in Slovenia (4 C) E. Entertainment in Slovenia (11 C) Events in Slovenia (8 C, 1 P) F. Slovenian fashion (1 C) Slovenian folklore (4 C, 8 P)
Kurentovanje is Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival event first organised in 1960 by Drago Hasl and his associates from cultural and educational organizations. This 11-day rite of spring and fertility highlight event is celebrated on Shrove Sunday in Ptuj , the oldest documented city in the region, and draws around ...
Preservation of Slovene placenames in this area is especially critical, because here for centuries the written language was German, while the tradition of Slovene was passed in spoken, dialectal form, and today only a small number of people use traditional names. [2] There is a Slovenia-Austria cross-border cooperation aimed at the preservation ...
Typical Slovenian folk music is performed on Styrian harmonica (the oldest type of accordion), fiddle, clarinet, zithers, flute, and by brass bands of alpine type. In eastern Slovenia, fiddle and cimbalon bands are called velike goslarije. Traditional Slovenian music include various kinds of musical instruments such as: Steirische Harmonika; Kontra
Traditional clothing and headgear of folk group in Kranj (from Culture of Slovenia) Image 3 Ljubljana Marshes Wheel , c. 3150 BC (from History of Slovenia ) Image 4 The execution of Matija Gubec , leader of the Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt , in 1573.