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Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers 20,271 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi), and has a population of approximately 2.1 million. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps.
Physical geography Landform regions Detailed map of Austria Satellite photo of the Alps. Austria may be divided into three unequal geographical areas. The largest part of Austria (62%) is occupied by the relatively young mountains of the Alps, but in the east, these give way to a part of the Pannonian plain, and north of the river Danube lies the Bohemian Forest, an older, but lower, granite ...
Loibl Pass. / 46.44167°N 14.25528°E / 46.44167; 14.25528. The Loibl Pass ( German: Loiblpass) or Ljubelj Pass ( Slovene: prelaz Ljubelj) is a high mountain pass in the Karawanks chain of the Southern Limestone Alps, linking Austria with Slovenia. The Loibl Pass road is the shortest connection between the Carinthian town of Ferlach and ...
The federal customs officers in Slovenia on the border crossings with Italy, Austria, and Hungary simply changed uniforms since most of them were local Slovenes. The following day (26 June), the Federal Executive Council specifically ordered the army to take control of the "internationally recognized borders", leading to the Ten-Day War .
Slovenia (1991–present; capital ) Ljubljana [a] (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia, [14] [15] located along a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, [16] north of the country's largest marsh, inhabited since prehistoric times.
Austria–Slovenia border. Border tripoint between Italy, Slovenia and Austria, at an altitude of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) Border tripoint between Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia. The Austrian–Slovenian border is a 330-kilometre (210 mi) [1] land border between the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Slovenia .
When Slovenia gained independence in 1991, it became the Italian–Slovenian border. The border has been an EU internal border since 2003 and a Schengen border since 2007. Between 1920 and 1947 the border between Italy and Kingdom of Yugoslavia went further east. The definition of the border between Italy and Yugoslavia dates back to the Treaty ...
Carinthia, East Tyrol, and Styria then formed the UK occupation zone of Allied-administered Austria. The area was witness to the turnover of German-allied Cossacks to the Red Army in 1945. The Allied occupation was terminated in 1955 by the Austrian State Treaty, which restored Austria's sovereignty. The relations between the German- and the ...