Lower Carniola
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Lower Carniola | |
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Traditional region | |
Country | Slovenia |
Elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
Lower Carniola (
region.Geography
Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of
Within the
.History
In the 17th century, the Habsburg duchy of Carniola was internally divided into three administrative districts. This division was thoroughly described by the scholar Johann Weikhard von Valvasor in his 1689 work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola. The districts were known in German as Kreise (kresija in old Slovene). They were: Upper Carniola with its centre in Ljubljana (formerly Kranj), comprising the northern areas of the duchy; Inner Carniola comprising the southwest, with its centre in Postojna, and Lower Carniola in the southeast, roughly corresponding to the medieval Windic March of the Holy Roman Empire. While the bulk of the population spoke Slovene, the German-speaking exclave of the Gottschee Germans existed around Kočevje in the south.
This division remained, in various arrangements, up to the 1860s, when the old administrative districts were abolished and Lower Carniola was subdivided into the smaller
Since the 1890s, Lower Carniola has become significantly more connected with the surrounding regions through the construction of the Ljubljana–Novo Mesto Railway (1894), Sevnica–Trebnje Railway (1908, 1938), and the Brotherhood and Unity Highway (1958) linking Ljubljana and Zagreb.[2] In the early 21st century the Brotherhood and Unity Highway was replaced with the modern A2 motorway (completed in 2011).[3][4]
Culture
Since 2013, Woodland pristava, an annual electronic dance music festival, has been held at the Pristava in Stična.
Image gallery
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Stična Abbey
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Kostanjevica na Krki Monastery
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Mirna Castle
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Rural landscape near Trebnje
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Lower Carniolan folk costumes
See also
References
- ^ Ferenc, Tone. 1988. "Dolenjska." Enciklopedija Slovenije, vol. 2, pp. 287–298. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 287.
- ISBN 961-6182-64-1.
- ^ Bole, David; Gabrovec, Matej (2012). "Daily Commuters in Slovenia" (PDF). Geografski Vestnik. 84 (1): 177.
- ^ "Slovenian A2 Motorway Completed". Government Communication Office, Republic of Slovenia. 28 October 2011.
External links
- Media related to Lower Carniola at Wikimedia Commons