Ptuj

Coordinates: 46°25′10″N 15°52′10″E / 46.41944°N 15.86944°E / 46.41944; 15.86944
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Ptuj
Pettau
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Top: Panoramic view of Ptuj heritage area and Drava River, Middle: Ptuj Town Hall, St. George's Church, Korantavanje carnival in late February, Minorite Monastery, Bottom: Southern suburbs of Ptuj from Ptuj Castle (left to right)
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Ptuj (pronounced

Austria-Hungarian Empire. In the early 20th century the majority of the residents spoke German,[2]
but today the population is largely Slovene.

History

Historical affiliations

Roman Empire (69–476AD)
Ostrogothic Kingdom (476–552)
Lombards (552–568)
Pannonian Avars (568–623, 658–700)
Samo's Empire (623–658)
Early Slavs (700–795)
Francia (795–840)

Balaton Principality
(840–874)
Archbishop of Salzburg (977–1555)
 Habsburg Monarchy (1555–1804)
 Austrian Empire (1804–1867)
 Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
 State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918)
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)
Nazi Germany (1941–1944)
 SFR Yugoslavia[3] (1944–1991)
 Slovenia 1991–Present

Earliest history

Ptuj is the oldest recorded town in Slovenia. There is evidence that the area was settled in the Stone Age. In the Late Iron Age it was settled by Celts.[4]

AD 69: Ptuj is mentioned for the first time

By the 1st century BC, the settlement was controlled by

Roman Emperor by the Danubian legions in Ptuj, and the first written mention of the city of Ptuj is from the same year. Poetovium was the base-camp of Legio XIII Gemina where it had its legionary fortress or castrum. The name originated in the times of Emperor Trajan, who granted the settlement city status and named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio in 103. The patristic writer Victorinus was Bishop of Poetovio before his martyrdom in 303 or 304. The Caesar Constantius Gallus was divested of his imperial robe and arrested in Poetovio before his subsequent execution in Pola (354) (Amm.Marc. Hist. XIV) The battle of Poetovio in 388 saw Theodosius I
's victory over the usurper, Maximus.

The city had 40,000 inhabitants until it was plundered by the Huns in 450.[4]

Middle Ages

In 570 the city was occupied by

Archbishopric of Salzburg which had both spiritual and temporal rule over the town;[4] city rights
passed in 1376 began an economic upswing for the settlement.

Habsburg Monarchy and Austria-Hungary

After the re-establishment of the Habsburg rule in 1490, following Matthias Corvinus's conquests, the Archbishop of Salzburg was stripped of the remaining temporal authority over the town and the surrounding areas; Ptuj (known in German as Pettau) was officially incorporated into the Duchy of Styria in 1555.[4]

Pettau was a battleground during the Ottoman wars in Europe and suffered from fires in 1684, 1705, 1710, and 1744.[4] Its population and importance began to decline in the 19th century, however, after the completion of the Vienna-Trieste route of the Austrian Southern Railway, as the line went through Marburg (Maribor) instead.

According to the 1910 Austro-Hungarian census, 86% of the population of Pettau's Old Town was

Republic of German Austria
.

Establishment of Yugoslavia

After the military intervention of the Slovenian general

ethnic German
minority remained.

World War II

After the

expelled to Austria in 1945; many later settled in North America
.

Since 1945, Ptuj has been populated almost completely by Slovenes.

Culture

Kurenti in Ptuj

The Kurent or Korant Carnival

Ptuj is the center place of a ten-day-long

Slavic pagan rite of spring and fertility, called Kurentovanje or Korantovanje. Kurent is believed to be the name of an ancient god of hedonism - the Slavic counterpart of the Greek god Priapos
, although there are no written records.

Kurent or Korant is a figure dressed in sheep skin who go about the town wearing masks, a long red tongue, cow bells, and multi-colored ribbons on the head. The Kurent(s) from Ptuj and the adjoining villages also wear feathers, while those from the Haloze and Lancova Vas wear horns. Organized in groups, Kurents go through town, from house to house, making noise with their bells and wooden sticks, to symbolically scare off evil spirits and the winter.

Landmarks

Ptuj Town Hall
Town Tower and Theatre

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint George and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It is a three-naved Gothic building from the 13th and early 14th century, but the structure incorporates parts of a much earlier structure, dating to the mid-9th century.[5]

Town quarters

  • Center
  • Breg–Turnišče
  • Ljudski Vrt
  • Jezero
  • Panorama
  • Rogoznica
  • Grajena
  • Spuhlja

Notable people

  • Brigita Brezovac (born 1979), bodybuilder
  • Nastja Čeh (born 1978), Slovenian international footballer
  • Laris Gaiser [sl] (born 1977), geopolitical analyst and expert of international relations
  • Tim Gajser (born 1996), motocross racer
  • Luigi Kasimir (1881−1962), artist
  • Benka Pulko (born 1967), long-distance motorcycle traveler, writer, photographer, humanitarian and Guinness World Record holder
  • Miha Remec (1920−2020), science fiction author
  • Angela Salloker (1913−2006), actress
  • Aljaž Skorjanec
    (born 1990), dancer and choreographer
  • Viktor Skrabar (1877–1938), lawyer and archaeologist[6][7]
  • Aleš Šteger (born 1973), poet
  • Victorinus of Pettau (died 303), bishop and martyr
  • Dejan Zavec
    (born 1976), boxer

Sister cities

Ptuj is

twinned
with:

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Sasel, J. "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites,POETOVIO(Ptuj) Yugoslavia". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. ^ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. 1904. p. 4.
  3. ^ Known as: Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1944–1945); Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1963); Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g PtujTourism.si. "The History of Ptuj". Accessed November 8, 2006.
  5. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 582
  6. ^ "Skrabar, Viktor (1877–1938)". Slovenska biografija. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  7. ^ "130 let Pokrajinskega muzeja Ptuj – Ormož: Povod za nastanek je bil ohranitev arheološke zbirke". RTV SLO. September 23, 2023. Retrieved September 23, 2023.

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