Territory
The Province of Ljubljana was created on the territory of the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was split between the Greater German Reich and the Kingdom of Italy in April 1941.
The bulk of its territory is:
- Lower Carniola (except a strip of land along the Sava river, occupied by the Third Reich);
- The eastern portions of Inner Carniola (the present-day municipalities of Logatec, Cerknica, Bloke and Loška Dolina),
- The city of Ljubljana and its southern suburbs. The northern suburbs (Šentvid) were under the occupation of Greater German Reich.
Fascist Italy occupied Marindol, and other villages that previously belonged to the Banovina of Croatia, Milić-Selo, Paunović-Selo, Žunić-Selo, Vukobrati, Vidnjevići and Vrhovci. These villages were annexed to the municipality of Črnomelj as part of Ljubljana Province even if the population of those villages was not and now is not Slovene but Orthodox Serb population. After the war the inhabitants of those areas demanded to be returned under the auspicies of the county of Karlovac in the People’s Republic of Croatia. By the administrative organization of 1947 Marindol and the surrounding villages on the left bank of Kolpa was a local community in the composition of the county of Karlovac. It was still constituent part of the county in the time of 1948 Census. After that complete area is under Slovenian authority. Also parts of Žumberak/Gorjanci area were anexed by Italy to the Ljubljana Province and parts of Gorski kotar mainly in the Čabar area (villages around Prezid), all from what was before then part of the Banovina of Croatia. This was an agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the Independent State of Croatia on the border between the two Axis states during the Second World War.
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Famous quotes containing the word territory:
“A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)