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Map of Slovenia with ancient Roman provinces and cities (as of 100 A.D.) in green and present-day frontiers in grey. In the Iron Age, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Illyrian and Celtic tribes until the 1st century BC, when the Romans conquered the region establishing the provinces of Pannonia and Noricum.
Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, [16] covers 20,271 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi), [17] and has a population of approximately 2.1 million. [18] Slovene is the official language. [19] Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, [20] with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps.
Slovene is an Indo-European language belonging to the Western subgroup of the South Slavic branch of the Slavic languages, together with Serbo-Croatian. It is close to the Chakavian and especially Kajkavian dialects of Serbo-Croatian, but genealogically more distant from the Shtokavian dialect , the basis for the Bosnian , Croatian ...
Western Slovenia (Zahodna Slovenija) is one of the two NUTS-2 Regions of Slovenia. The region forms the western part of the country and includes the cities of Ljubljana, Kranj, Koper and Nova Gorica. It is the wealthier of the two regions of Slovenia. Western Slovenia (SI02) is divided into the following statistical regions: Central Slovenia
This is a timeline of Slovenian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Slovenia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Slovenia. See also the list of presidents of Slovenia. third century BC Year Date Event 250 BC The Celtic La Tène culture comes to the territories of modern Slovenia, replacing the ...
The location of Slovenia An enlargeable map of the Republic of Slovenia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Slovenia: . Slovenia – sovereign country located in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. [1]
The annexed western quarter of Slovene speaking territory, and approximately 327,000 out of the total population of 1.3 [72] million Slovenes, [73] were subjected to forced Fascist Italianization. On the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries.
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...