Slovenia History, Geography, Economy and Important Events

During World War II (1939–1945), Germany, Italy, and Hungary occupied Slovenia and liberated the territories included in present-day Slovenia (1941–1945), a small territory called Croatia, an independent puppet state Was transferred. In 1945, Slovenia became a founding member of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, renamed in 1963 as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The state was initially allied with the Eastern Bloc in the first years after World War II, but due to the partition of Tito-Stalin in 1948 it was never subject to the Warsaw Pact and in 1961 the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement Became one.

Slovenia is located in central and southeastern Europe — the Alps, the Dinarides, the Pannonian Plains and the Mediterranean — these four major European geographical regions are found in Slovenia. Although on the coast of the Adriatic Sea near the Mediterranean Sea, most of Slovenia is in the Black Sea drainage basin. The "Karst topography" is the Karst Plateau of southwestern Slovenia, a limestone region of subterranean rivers, gorges, and caves, between Ljubljana and the Mediterranean Sea. To the east and northeast on the Pannonian plain, towards the Croatian and Hungarian borders, the landscape is essentially flat.

The economy of Slovenia is small, open and export-oriented and thus heavily influenced by the conditions of the economies of its export partners. This is particularly true with Germany, Slovenia's largest trade partner. Like most of the developed world, Slovenia was badly hurt by the eurozone crisis that began in 2009, but began to recover in 2014. The main economic driver for the country is the service industry.

The official language in Slovenia is Slovenia, a member of the South Slavic language group. In 2002, Slovenia was the native language of about 88% of Slovenia's population according to the census, while more than 92% of the Slovenian population spoke it in their home environment. This statistic ranks Slovenia among the most homogeneous countries in the European Union in terms of the share of speakers of the mother tongue.