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Most Slovenes today live within the borders of the independent Slovenia (2,100,000 inhabitants, 83% Slovenes est. July 2020). In the Slovenian national census of 2002, 1,631,363 people ethnically declared themselves as Slovenes, [48] while 1,723,434 people claimed Slovene as their native language. [49]
A significant number of people in Slovenia speak a variant of Serbo-Croatian (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin) as their native language. These are mostly families who moved to Slovenia from other former Yugoslav republics. Altogether, Serbo-Croatian in its different forms is the second natively spoken language in Slovenia with 5.9% ...
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
During the whole interwar period, Slovene voters strongly supported the conservative Slovene People's Party, which unsuccessfully fought for the autonomy of Slovenia within a federalized Yugoslavia. In 1935, however, the Slovene People's Party joined the pro-regime Yugoslav Radical Community , opening the space for the development of a left ...
The number of people migrating to Slovenia has been steadily rising from 1995; [37] and the rate of immigration itself has been increasing year-on-year, reaching its peak in 2016. Since Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, the yearly inflow of immigrants has doubled by 2006 and tripled by 2009. [38]
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 Slovene diaspora include autochthonous Slovene minority in Italy, estimated at 83,000 – 100,000, [1] Slovene minority in southern Austria at 24,855, in Croatia at 13,200, and Slovene minority in Hungary at 3,180 [2] and a significant Slovene expatriate communities live in the United States (most notably Greater Cleveland, home to the highest concentration outside Europe [3] with ...
The Slovene lands or Slovenian lands (Slovene: Slovenske dežele or in short Slovensko) is the historical [1] denomination for the territories in Central and Southern Europe where people primarily spoke Slovene. The Slovene lands were part of the Illyrian provinces, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary (in Cisleithania).