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The overall number of World War II casualties in Slovenia is estimated at 97,000. The number includes about 14,000 people, who were killed or died for other war-related reasons immediately after the end of the war, [86] [87] and the tiny Jewish community, which was nearly annihilated in the Holocaust.
Slovene culture is the culture of the Slovenes, a South Slavic ethnic group. It is incredibly diverse for the country's small size, spanning the southern portion of Central Europe, being the melting pot of Slavic, Germanic and Romance cultures while encompassing parts of the Eastern Alps, the Pannonian Basin, the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean.
The Ten-Day War lasted till 7 July 1991, [42] when the Brijuni Agreement was made, with the European Community as a mediator, and the Yugoslav National Army started its withdrawal from Slovenia. On 26 October 1991, the last Yugoslav soldier left Slovenia.
Slovenian Territorial Defense Units counterattacking a Yugoslav People's Army tank which entered Slovenia during the Ten-Day War, 1991. The initial revolutionary events in Slovenia pre-dated the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe by almost a year, but went largely unnoticed by international observers. On 23 December 1990, more than 88% of ...
Slovenia was in a rare position in Europe during the Second World War because only Greece shared its experience of being divided between three or more countries. However, Slovenia was the only one that experienced a further step—absorption and annexation into neighboring Germany , Italy , Croatia , and Hungary . [ 12 ]
This category and its subcategories are restricted to people verified to be of Slovene heritage/descent/origin, according to reliable published sources. See Category:Slovenian people for related people by nationality.
This is a timeline of Slovenian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Slovenia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Slovenia. See also the list of presidents of Slovenia. third century BC Year Date Event 250 BC The Celtic La Tène culture comes to the territories of modern Slovenia, replacing the ...
Audrey Totter (1917–2013) – actress (Slovenian father; born and lived in the United States; never lived in Slovenia) Marjetka Vovk (born 1984) – singer and composer; Sare Havliček (born 1974) – musical producer; Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) – composer "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959) – singer and musician of Slovenian descent