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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.
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.
Many researchers, communities, and organizations work for preservation of the Slovenian microtoponyms. [1] [2] In 2010 the "Slovene field and house names in Carinthia" were included into the UNESCO Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria (de:Immaterielles Kulturerbe in Österreich). Preservation of Slovene placenames in this area ...
Slovenia, [a] officially the Republic of Slovenia, [b] is a country in Central Europe. [13] [14] It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean sea. [15]
Another symbol connected to Triglav comes from the folktale of the Goldenhorn, a mythical chamois living in an enchanted garden near its summit.; The carnation is widely cultivated in Slovenia; the red carnation in particular is considered the national flower.
A sizable minority of Slovenes are non-religious or atheists, [104] according to the published data from the 2002 Slovenian census, out of a total of 47,488 Muslims (who represent 2.4% of the total population), 2,804 Muslims (who in turn represent 5.9% of the total Muslims in Slovenia) declared themselves as Slovenian Muslims.
Major alcohol companies have been bracing for a culture shift favoring nonalcoholic options. Consumers under 30 tend to buy less alcohol and drink less often.
In the 2018 analysis of Slovenian population, the Slovenian population clustered with Croatians, Hungarians and was close to Czech. [ 57 ] The 2006 Y-DNA study results "suggest that the Slavic expansion started from the territory of present-day Ukraine, thus supporting the hypothesis that places the earliest known homeland of Slavs in the basin ...