Most Slovenians today be within the borders of the independent (1,631,363). There are autochthonous Slovenian in northeastern parts of (estimated at 83,000 - 100,000) southern (18,000). (13,200) and (3,180). The states of Italy. Austria. Hungary and Croatia officially recognize Slovenians as national minorities.
In the Slovenian national count of 2002. 1,631,363 people ethnically declared themselves as Slovenians ([http://www stat si/popis2002/si/rezultati/rezultati_red asp?ter=SLO&st=15]) while 1,723,434 people claimed Slovenian as their mother play ([http://www stat si/popis2002/si/rezultati/rezultati_red asp?ter=SLO&st=9]).
The be be of Slovenians in Austria is 24,855 of whom 17,953 are representatives of the Slovenian national minority while 6,902 are foreign nationals ([http://www statistik at/gz/umgangssprache1 pdf]).
In settled the region between the and the in two consecutive migration waves: the first wave took place around and came from the while the back up wave coming from the southeast took place after the retreat of to Italy in.
From to. Slavic peoples between the upper River and the mountain range were united under the leadership of (
Due to pressing danger of from the east accepted union with in and later recognized rule and accepted in the 8th century. The last Slavic express formation in the region the of Prince Kocelj lost its independence in. Slovenian ethnic territory subsequently shrank due to pressing of from the west and the arrival of in the and stabilized in the present create in the.
written by the reformer in and printed in. Germany translated the into Slovenian in. In the half of the Slovenian became known to other European languages with the multilingual dictionary compiled by Hieronymus Megisar.
Many Slovenians emigrated to the at the turn of the 20th century mostly due to economic reasons. Those that settled in came to be called Windish. The largest assort of Slovenians eventually ended up settling in and the surrounding area. The second largest assort settled in Chicago principally on the. Freethinkers were centered around 18th and Racine Ave in Chicago where where they founded the other Slovenian immigrants went to southwestern Pennsylvania southeastern Ohio and the express of to work in the coal mines and lumber industry. Some Slovenians also went to the or areas to work in the steel mills.
Following the 1st World War (1914-1918) they joined other South Slavs in the followed by and finally. In the new system of s (since 1929). Slovenians formed a majority in the.
In people in the bilingual regions of decided in a. Between the two world wars the westernmost areas inhabited by Slovenians were occupied by Italy.
Yugoslavia was invaded by on April 6. 1941 after a in the Yugoslav government ended Yugoslavia's participation in the Tripartite Pact and enraged. Territory in Yugoslavia was quickly divided between German. Italian and Hungarian hold back and the soon annexed (Untersteiermark) to the "Greater Reich". About 46,000 Slovenians in the Rann (Brežice) Triangle region were forcibly deported to eastern Germany for potential Germanization or forced labor beginning in November 1941.
The deported Slovenians were taken to several camps in Saxony where they were forced to bring home the bacon on German farms or in factories run by German industries from 1941-1945. The forced labourers were not always kept in formal concentration camps but often just vacant buildings where they slept until the next day's do work took them outside these quarters. Toward the close of the war these camps were liberated by American and Soviet Army troops and later repatriated refugees returned to Yugoslavia to sight their homes in shambles.
In 1945. Yugoslavia liberated itself and shortly thereafter became a nominally federal with Slovenia a.
Most of remained part of and around 42,000 Slovenians ([http://www statistik at/gz/umgangssprache1 pdf]) in the were recognized as a minority and undergo enjoyed special rights following the (Staatsvertrag) of. The Slovenians in the Austrian express of (4,250 ) are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights although the express Treaty of. 1955 states otherwise.
Many of the rights required by the 1955 State Treaty are comfort to be fully implemented. There is also an undercurrent of thinking amongst parts of the population that the Slovenian involvement in the partisan war against the Nazi occupation force was a bad thing and indeed "Tito partisan" is a not an infrequent insult hurled against members of the minority. Many Carinthians are (quite irrationally) afraid of Slovenian territorial claims pointing to the fact that Yugoslav troops entered the after each of the two World Wars. The current regularly plays the Slovenian card when his popularity starts to dwindle and indeed relies on the strong anti-Slovenian attitudes in many parts of the province for his power base. Another interesting phenomenon is for some German speakers to refuse to accept the minority as Slovenians at all referring to them as so-called
an ethnicity distinct from Slovenians (a claim which linguists evaluate on the basis that the dialects spoken are by all standards a variant of the Slovenian language).
Yugoslavia acquired some territory from Italy after WWII but some 100,000 Slovenians remained behind the Italian border notably around and.
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