Slovene Lands
The Slovene lands or Slovenian lands (
Slovene.[5]
Terminology
Like the
Spring of Nations. "Slovenia" became a de facto distinctive administrative and political entity for the first time in 1918, with the unilateral declaration of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.[7]
Although Slovenia did not exist as an autonomous administrative unit between 1921 and 1941, the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was frequently called simply "Slovenia", even in some official documents.[8][9][10]
Consequently, most Slovene scholars prefer to refer to the "Slovene lands" in English rather than "Slovenia" to describe the territory of modern Slovenia and neighbouring areas in earlier times. The use of the English term "Slovenia" is generally considered by Slovene scholars to be anachronistic due to its modern origin.[11]
Geographical extension
Spring of Nations
in 1848 and published only in 1861, was the first map of the Slovene lands as a territorial unit.In the 19th century, the
territories regarded as part of the Slovene lands were:[12]
- Carniola
- southern Carinthia
- Lower Styria
- )
- Jennersdorf in the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Burgenland, Austria);
- most of the
- the Imperial Free City of Trieste, a city in modern Italy
- northern
- Venetian Slovenia (Italian: Slavia Vèneta), until 1797 part of the Republic of Venice, later Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
- Croatia–Slovenia border disputes
The
Žumberak and the area around Čabar, which today belong to Croatia, were long part of the Duchy of Carniola, and thus generally regarded as part of the Slovene lands,[citation needed] especially prior to the emergence of Romantic nationalism in the 19th century, when the exact ethnic border between Slovenes and Croats had not yet been specified.[citation needed
]
Not all of the territories referred to as the "Slovene lands" have always had a Slovene-speaking majority. Several towns, especially in Lower Styria, maintained a
Germanization started by the end of the 1840s, creating several German-speaking areas within what had previously been a compact Slovene territory. Since the late 1950s, most of southern Carinthia has had a German-speaking majority, with the local Slovene minority living in a scattered pattern throughout the area.[18]
On the other hand, other areas with historically important Slovene communities, such as the
Somogy Slovenes), were never regarded to be part of the Slovene lands.[19] The same goes for the Slovene communities in south-west Friuli (in the villages of Gradisca, Gradiscutta, Gorizzo, Goricizza, Lestizza, and Belgrado in the lower Tagliamento area) which extinguished themselves by the end of the 16th century.[20]
See also
- History of Slovenia
- Carinthian Slovenes
- Hungarian Slovenes
- Slavia Friulana (Beneška Slovenija)
- Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)
References
- ISSN 1855-8267. Archived from the originalon 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
- ^ Lenček, Rado (1990). "Note: The Terms Wende - Winde, Wendisch - Windisch in the Historiographic Tradition of the Slovene Lands". Slovene Studies. 12 (1): 94.
- ISBN 9780521095310.
- ^ Polšak, Anton (October 2010). "Slovenci v zamejstvu" (PDF). Seminar ZRSŠ: Drugačna geografija [ZRSŠ Seminary: A Different Geography]. Livške Ravne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
- ISBN 978-3-89971-531-6.
- ^ Ingrid Merchiers, Cultural Nationalism in the South Slav Habsburg Lands in the Early Nineteenth Century: the Scholarly Network of Jernej Kopitar (1780-1844) (Munich: O. Sagner, 2007)
- ^ Jurij Perovšek, Slovenska osamosvojitev v letu 1918 (Ljubljana: Modrijan, 1998)
- ^ Ivan Selan, Slovenija [Kartografsko gradivo]: Dravska banovina (Ljubljana: Kmetijska zbornica Dravske banovine, 1938)
- ^ Vinko Vrhunec, Slovenija v šestletki cestnih del (Ljubljana: Banovinska uprava Dravske banovine, 1939)
- ^ Andrej Gosar, Banovina Slovenija: politična, finančna in gospodarska vprašanja (Ljubljana: Dejanje, 1940)
- ^ Peter Štih, Vasko Simoniti, Peter Vodopivec, Slowenische Geschichte: Gesellschaft - Politik - Kultur (Graz: Leykam, 2008)
- ^ Branko Božič, Zgodovina slovenskega naroda (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1969)
- ^ Janez Cvirn: Trdnjavski trikotnik (Maribor: Obzorja, 1997)
- Muzej novejše zgodovine, 1993)
- ^ Tina Bahovec, Das österreichisch-italienisch-slovenische Dreiländereck: Ursachen und Folgen der nationalstaatlichen Dreiteilung einer Region (Klagenfurt - Ljubljana: Hermagoras/Mohorjeva, 2006)
- ^ Jože Pirjevec, "Trst je naš!" Boj Slovencev za morje (1848-1954) (Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2008)
- ^ Aldo Rupel et al., Krajevni leksikon Slovencev v Italiji (Trieste - Duino: SLORI, 1995)
- ^ Andreas Moritsch & Thomas M. Barker, The Slovene Minority of Carinthia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984)
- ^ Etnologija Slovencev na Madžarskem = A Magyarországi szlovének néprajza (Budapest: A Magyar Néprajzi Társaság, 1997
- Slovenska matica, 1998)
Further reading
- Slovenska matica, 1987)
- Josip Gruden & Josip Mal, Zgodovina slovenskega naroda I.-II. (Celje: Mohorjeva družba, 1992-1993)
- Janko Prunk, A brief history of Slovenia: Historical background of the Republic of Slovenia (Ljubljana: Mihelač, 1994)