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The Republic of Slovenia—Geographical Constants of the New Central-European State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ivan Gams
Ivan Gams*
Affiliation:
Ljubljana University
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Abstract

The territory of this new European state is crossed by strategically important passes, the lowest in the entire Alps, leading from the Danubian basin to the Mediterranean (Italy). Thus, the Slovenes had been under cultural, civilizational and political domination of centers from these two parts of Europe until 1918. Because the mountainous land forms, dissected also by valleys and basins, were prone to processes of diffusion rather than fusion, the Slovenes became a national and political subject of their own as late as the nineteenth century. From 1918 to 1990 they were joined to Yugoslavia, a South-East European state, and learnt, to their cost, all the differences between the cultures of West and Central Europe on the one hand, and South-East and Eastern Europe and the Near East on the other. Hence the plebiscite decision by the nation for an independent state.

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Introduction: An Overview
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 21 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Voices From The Slovene Nation, 1990-1992 , Spring 1993 , pp. 15 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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