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The Slovenian National Home in Cleveland, Ohio at 6409 St. Clair Avenue. The building was named as a Greater Cleveland Landmark in 1984. The Slovenian Sokol was formed in 1897 to promote gymnastics, as well as music and literature in the Slovene community. [13]
The first documented Slovenian to settle in the Cleveland area was Joseph Turk, who came about 1883, most likely from Carniola, and settled on Marble Avenue, near the steel mills. [3] He helped organize the Catholic Slovenes in Cleveland, and requested that Bishop Richard Gilmour of Cleveland appoint a permanent Slovenian priest in Cleveland.
National Cleveland-style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland [24] American Slovenian Club of Fairport Harbor, Fairport Harbor, OH [25] Slovene Home for the Aged, Cleveland [26] Slovenian Museum and Archives, Cleveland [27] Slovenska Pristava, Harpersfield, OH; Slovenian Catholic recreation and retreat center [28] [29]
The largest group of Slovenes in the United States eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The second-largest group settled in Chicago, principally on the Lower West Side . The American Slovenian Catholic Union (Ameriško slovenska katoliška enota) was founded as an organization to protect Slovene-American rights in ...
Tony Adamle – American football player – Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns (member of 1950 and 1954 NFL Championship teams) Jeff Blatnick – Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling; Frank Brimsek – ice hockey player; Bryant Dunston – professional basketball player for the Slovenian national team since he acquired Slovenian ...
Cleveland Kurentovanje (pronounced koo-rehn-toh-VAHN-yeh) is a Slovenian-American festival celebrating the end of winter and the beginning of spring, taking place annually the weekend before Ash Wednesday, in Cleveland, Ohio, mirroring Kurentovanje in Slovenia.
The Slovenian style polka in the United States of America came about when immigrants from Slovenia taught the old songs to their children. Those children, as adults, translated the old songs from Slovene into English, and arranged them in a polka beat. This began the oral tradition of Cleveland-style polka music.
Nut rolls are known also by many specific regional names, including: orechovník in Slovak; makowiec in Polish; potica, povitica, gibanica, orahnjača/orehnjača in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian (walnut variant, makovnjača for variant with poppy seed, in Croatia can also be made with carob); kalács and bejgli in Hungarian; and pastiç or nokul ...