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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]
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.
Among the show trials that took place in Slovenia between 1945 and 1950, the most important were the Nagode trial against democratic intellectuals and left liberal activists (1946) and the Dachau trials (1947–1949), where former inmates of Nazi concentration camps were accused of collaboration with the Nazis. Many members of the Roman ...
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.
Cultural history of Slovenia (6 C, 19 P) L. Languages of Slovenia (2 C, 14 P) M. Mass media in Slovenia (14 C, 3 P) N. ... Pages in category "Culture of 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 ...
Culture of Carniola (1 C, 5 P) D. ... Pages in category "Cultural history of Slovenia" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.