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The main territory of Slovenia, being the most industrialized and westernized among others less developed parts of Yugoslavia became the main center of industrial production: in comparison to Serbia, for example, in Slovenia the industrial production was four times greater and even twenty-two times greater than in Vardar Banovina.
The location of Slovenia An enlargeable map of the Republic of Slovenia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Slovenia: . Slovenia – sovereign country located in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. [1]
During the re-establishment of Yugoslavia in World War II, the first Slovenian republic, Federal Slovenia, was created and it became part of Federal Yugoslavia. It was a socialist state , but because of the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, economic and personal freedoms were much broader than in the Eastern Bloc countries.
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
Ireland Yugoslavia; Official name Republic of Ireland Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Coat of arms Flag Capital Dublin: Belgrade: Largest city Dublin: Belgrade: Population 3,970,155 23,229,846 Government Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic: Socialist republic: Official languages English: No official language
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
On 23 December 1990, a referendum on independence was held in Slovenia, at which 94.8% of the voters (88.5% of the overall electorate) voted in favour of separation of Slovenia from Yugoslavia. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 25 June 1991, the acts about the Slovenian independence were passed by the Assembly; Slovenia was immediately recognized by likewise ...
Slovenia was divided into towns, districts, and municipalities (as a new subdivision replacing townships); there were 19 districts and 386 municipalities (of which 44 urban municipalities). In 1955, municipalities were subdivided into communes ( komuna ) as the basic units of the socialist society. [ 6 ]