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Happy National Day of Slovenia!

25/06/2020

Čestitke ob dnevu državnosti!

Slovenia is a country in central Europe bordered by Austria to the north, Italy to the west, Hungary to the far northeast and with Croatia to the southeast. For most of the 20th century, Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia, a federal and socialist country, which included five other republics now recognized as independent states, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, that was permanently disbanded in 1991. As part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia came under communist rule for the bulk of the post-World War II period. With the dissolution of the Yugoslav federation in 1991, a multiparty democratic political system emerged in the country.

Despite linguistic kinship with people from the Balkan Peninsula, the Slovenes are culturally Alpine folk who have more in common with northern Italians, southern Germans, and the Swiss. Slovene, the official language of Slovenia, is a Slavic language and it has affinities to Czech and Slovak, as well as to Croat and Serbian.

Learn more about this beautiful yet rather discreet European state by practicing with our 63 public Slovene speeches available in Speech Repository and another 25 speeches on My Speech Repository!

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