![]() ![]() White Carniola ( Bela krajina), otherwise part of Lower Carniola, is usually considered a separate region, as are Zasavje and Posavje, with the former being a part of Upper and Lower Carniola and Styria and the latter part of Lower Carniola and Styria. The last two are usually considered together as the Littoral Region ( Primorska). Slovenian Istria ( Slovenska Istra) (L).Upper Carniola ( Gorenjska) (denoted on the map as U.C.).Slovenia is traditionally divided into eight regions.Īs given by Enciklopedija Slovenije ( Encyclopedia of Slovenia), traditional Slovenian regions, based on the former division of Slovenia into four Habsburg crown lands ( Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, and the Littoral) and their parts, are: Parliamentary elections are held every four years. ![]() The National Council has 40 seats, and is made up of representatives of social, economic, professional and local interest groups. The National Assembly has 90 seats, which are partially filled with directly elected representatives, and partially with proportionally elected representatives (two seats reserved for autochthonous Hungarian and Italian minorities). The bicameral Parliament of Slovenia consists of the National Assembly ( Državni zbor), and the National Council ( Državni svet). The executive branch is headed by the prime minister and the council of ministers or cabinet, which are elected by the parliament. The Slovenian head of state is the president, who is elected by popular vote every 5 years. Slovenia will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2008, being the first "new" member state to do so. Slovenia joined NATO on 29 March 2004 and the European Union on. Present-day Slovenia was formed on 25 June 1991 upon its independence from Yugoslavia, defeating the Yugoslav Army in the Ten-Day War. Following the re-establishment of Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, Slovenia became a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, officially declared on 29 November 1945. With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, Slovenians initially formed part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which shortly joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed (1929) the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1848 a strong programme for a United Slovenia ( Zedinjena Slovenija) emerged as part of the Spring of Nations movement within Austria. During the 14th century, most of Slovenia's regions passed into ownership of the Habsburgs whose lands later formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, and parts of the provinces of Istria, Carinthia and Styria. The Freising manuscripts, the earliest surviving written documents in a Slovenian dialect and the first ever Slavic document in Latin script, were written around 1000 AD. In 745, Carantania lost its independence, being largely subsumed into the Frankish empire. The Slavic Duchy of Carantania was formed in the 7th century. Slavic ancestors of the present-day Slovenians settled in the area in the 6th century. Slovenia is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, NATO, and has observer status in La Francophonie. Throughout Slovenia's history, the country has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Carantania (only Slovenia's modern northern part), the Holy Roman Empire, Austria-Hungary, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929) between the World Wars, and the SFR of Yugoslavia from 1945 until gaining independence in 1991. Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia ( Slovenian: Republika Slovenija), is a coastal Alpine country 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. eu, shared with other European Union member states. 1 In the residential municipalities of the Italian or Hungarian national community.Ģ Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: Population, Slovenia, 30 June 2006ģ To be replaced by the euro (EUR) on 1 January 2007.Ĥ Also. ![]()
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