United Slovenia

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Spring of Nations
in 1848, became the symbol of United Slovenia.

United Slovenia (

Slovene national movement
until World War I.

Historical context

Following the

Venetian Slovenia) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Prekmurje
). In such a fragmentation, a self-government on national basis was impossible.

The programme of United Slovenia was first formulated on 17 March 1848 by the

national conservative newspaper Kmetijske in rokodelske novice, edited by Janez Bleiweis. The idea advanced by Majar was elaborated and articulated by the society of Slovenes from Vienna, led at this time by the notable linguist Franz Miklosich, which published their manifesto on 29 April in the Slovene newspaper Novice from Klagenfurt. In the same period, the geographer Peter Kosler issued a map of the Slovene-inhabited areas
with ethnic-linguistic lines.

Janez Bleiweis presented these demands to the Austrian Emperor's younger brother

uprising in Hungary
, the Parliament was dissolved before it could even discuss the Slovene issue.

Aftermath

During the Second World War, the Chetnik leader Stevan Moljević idealized a plan in which Serbia and Slovenia would substantially enlarge their territories and fulfill their territorial claims after liberation from Axis forces.

The political aspirations of the Slovenes were suppressed by

Slovene national movement until World War I, and was gaining power in the period of tabori between 1868 and 1871. After the war and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the programme was partially replaced by the idea of integration with other South Slavs in the common country of Yugoslavia
.

After the collapse of the

Slovenian Littoral to Yugoslavia in 1947 and the partition of the Free Territory of Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia in 1954, the main demand of the United Slovenia programme – the unification of the majority of Slovene-inhabited areas
into a unified and autonomous political-administrative entity – saw its fulfillment.

The Post of Slovenia issued a stamp on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the United Slovenia movement.

List of territory claimed

Besides Slovenia itself, the territories claimed by the programme includes:

In modern Austria:

In modern Croatia:

In modern Italy:

In modern Hungary:

  • Southern parts of Vas and Zala counties

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-8157-0253-1
    .

Sources

  • Bogo Grafenauer et al., eds. "Slovenski državnopravni programi 1848–1918", in Slovenci in država. Ljubljana, 1995.
  • Stane Granda, Prva odločitev Slovencev za Slovenijo. Ljubljana: Nova revija, 1999.
  • Peter Kovačič Peršin, ed., 150 let programa Zedinjene Slovenije. Ljubljana: Društvo 2000, 2000.
  • Vasilij Melik, "Ideja Zedinjene Slovenije 1848–1991", in Slovenija 1848–1998: iskanje lastne poti. Stane Granda and Barbara Šatej, eds. Ljubljana, 1998..
  • Janko Prunk, Slovenski narodni programi: Narodni programi v slovenski politični misli od 1848 do 1945. Ljubljana, 1986.
  • Fran Zwitter, O slovenskem narodnem vprašanju, edited by Vasilij Melik. Ljubljana, 1990.

External links

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