Political and Ethnic Symbols
- The most common and recognizable of these is the Flag of Slovenia.
- The Coat of arms of Slovenia, a part of the flag itself.
- A leaf of a Linden or Lime tree, an important part of Slovene national heritage. Village assemblies, councils and other gatherings were traditionally held around circular tables beneath such a tree.
- The stylized graphical representation of the three peaks of Mount Triglav, the central device of the current coat of arms, has functioned as a national symbol since WWII, having been the emblem of the Liberation Front and subsequent communist-era arms.
- The coat of arms of Carniola or just its eagle are still considered national symbols, being the signs of one of the two historical Slavic duchies, Carniola and Carantania, but are considered historic rather than current ones.
- The principal symbols of Carantania, such as the Prince's Stone and the Duke's Chair, are considered Slovene national symbols by Slovenes, but this point of view has been opposed by Slovene scholars and many Austrians, most notably Jörg Haider.
- In the late 1980s, several symbols from the Middle Ages were revived as Slovenian national symbols, though their use is largely restricted to nationalist circles. Among them, the most popular are the so-called Slovene Hat, the crest of the coat of arms of the Slovene March, and the Black Panther, a reconstruction of the supposed coat of arms of the principality of Carantania.
- Peter Kozler's 19th-century map of the Slovene Lands has been used as a symbolic representation for United Slovenia. Since the 1980s, it has been used as a symbolic representation for the "common Slovenian cultural area" (Slovene: Skupni slovenski kulturni prostor or Enotni slovenski kulturni prostor) which transcends national borders.
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