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Ljubljana originated as a Roman settlement
called
Emona.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.C6)
Slovenia's area in 2004 was 20,000 square km. (7,700 sq.
miles).
(Econ, 1/31/04, p.52)
43,000BC A flutelike instrument
made of bear bone was found by archeologist Janez Dirjec at the
Divje Babe site in the valley of the Idrijca River in Slovenia. It
was believed to be about 45,000 years old.
(SFC, 10/31/96, p.A12)
745AD Some 200,000 Slovenians,
settled in a pocket of the eastern slopes of the Alps, were
threatened by the Avars and the Bavarians. For safety they adopted
Christianity and accepted the protection of the Frankish emperor
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-5)
c1300-1400 In the early 14th century the
Gottscheers settled in the Carniola region of what later became
Slovenia. The Germanic people were sent there to till the land and
pay taxes to the Carinthian counts of Ortenburg and to serve as a
forward guard for the Holy Roman Empire.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A12)
c1500-1600 The Predjama Castle was built at the
mouth of a huge cave at Postojna, Slovenia. It was later used by the
highway robber Erasmus Luegger.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.C7)
1580 In Slovenia 6 stallions
were brought from Spain to the stable at Lipica (Lipizza) by a
Hapsburg duke. The breed mixed with the Karst horse, native to the
region since Roman times, and with others horses to forge the
Lipizzaners.
(WSJ, 12/22/98, p.A16)
1800 France Presern (d.1849),
author, painter, poet, musician, mathematician and architect, was
born in Slovenia. His image was later featured on Slovenia’s
1,000-tolar bills.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.C6)
1809 Jul 5-1809 Jul 6, Napoleon
beat Austria’s archduke Charles at the Battle of Wagram. He annexed
the Illyrian Provinces (now part of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro), and abolished the Papal
States.
(http://tinyurl.com/vx8dk)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wagram)
1901 In Ljubljana, Slovenia,
the Dragon Bridge was built on the site of the former wooden
“Butcher’s Bridge.”
(SSFC, 5/23/04, p.D9)
1915 May 23, Italy declared war
on Austria-Hungary. Italy entered World War I and came up against
the Austro-Hungarian forces including many Slovenians in the Julian
Alps near Trieste. Over 29 months 12 major battles were fought along
the Soca River.
(AP, 5/23/97)(HN, 5/23/98)(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.T14)
1915-1917 As many as 1 million lives were lost
along the Isonza Front in northern Slovenia.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.T14)
1917 Jul 20, The Pact of
Corfu was signed between the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes to form
Yugoslavia. [see Dec 1, 1918]
(www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1917yugoslavia1.html)
1917 Oct 24, The Austro-German
army routed the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy. In what came to be
known as the 1st blitzkrieg German and Austro-Hungarian forces took
at least 250,000 Italian soldiers as prisoners on the Isonzo Front.
(HN, 10/24/98)(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.T14)
1918 Oct 29-1918 Oct 31, The
Kingdom of Greater Serbia was proclaimed at Sarajevo in Bosnia
bringing that state into what was later called Yugoslavia. [see Dec
1]
(BWH, 1988)
1918 Nov 7, The Yugoslav
National Conference at Geneva decided on the union of Croatia and
Slovenia with Serbia and Montenegro. [see Dec 1]
(BWH, 1988)
1918 Nov 24, Another
proclamation took place of the United Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes. [see Dec 1]
(BWH, 1988)
1918 Nov 26, Montenegro deposed
its king who opposed union and voted to join the new Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. [see Dec 1]
(BWH, 1988)
1918 Dec 1, The Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes [later in 1929 to be called Yugoslavia]
was proclaimed by Alexander Karadjordjevic, the son of King Peter of
Serbia. It included the previously independent kingdoms of Serbia
and Macedonia, the Hungarian-controlled regions of Croatia and
Slovenia, the Austrian province of Dalmatia, Carniola and parts of
Styria, Carinthia and Istria. King Alexander I renamed the Balkan
state called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes to
Yugoslavia in 1929.
(AP, 10/3/97)(HNQ,
3/26/99)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/map/yugoslavia/1900/)
1920 Jun 4, The Treaty of
Trianon, signed at Versailles, was forced upon Hungary by the
victorious Allies after WWII and resulted in Hungary giving up
nearly three-fourths of its territory to Romania, Czechoslovakia and
the Kingdom of Serbs, Croat and Slovenes. Hungary lost more than
half its population, including some 3 million Hungarians. Hungary
ceded the hills of Transylvania to Romania.
(HNQ, 7/5/98)(WSJ, 1/2/97,
p.1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon)
1920 Oct 10, The Carinthian
Plebiscite determined the border between Austria and the newly
formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Plebiscite)
1929 Oct 3, The Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia. King Alexander I renamed the Balkan state called the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Yugoslavia. The Kingdom had
been formed on December 1, 1918 and was ruled by the Serbian
Karageorgevic dynasty. It included the previously independent
kingdoms of Serbia and Macedonia, the Hungarian-controlled regions
of Croatia and Slovenia, the Austrian province of Dalmatia, Carniola
and parts of Styria, Carinthia and Istria.
(AP, 10/3/97)(HN, 10/3/98)(HNQ, 3/26/99)
1929 Joze Plecnik, architect,
added two foot bridges (Tromostovje) at the heart of the Slovenia’s
capital, Ljubljana. He designed the city for pedestrians and put in
colonnades, market places and loggias insisting that everyday
enterprises deserved monumental surroundings.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-5,7)(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.C7)
1941-1942 Some 97% of the Gottscheers were moved
north within Slovenia from the area of Kocevje to Rann (later
Brezice). Their peak population numbered some 25,000. They were
driven out of their new homes by Yugoslav partisans after which they
wound up in Austria and then dispersed around the world.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A12)
1943 In Slovenia Lojze Grozde
(20), a high school student, was captured as the country was
occupied by Italy and Germany. Communist-run antifascist rebels,
known as partisans, reportedly found a Latin prayer book in his
possession and suspected him of collaborating with Italian fascists.
His mutilated body was found a month later in a forest. In 2010
Grozde was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI.
(AP, 6/13/10)
1945 May-1945 Jun, The graves
of some 1,000 Croatian soldiers killed at this time were found in
1999 near Maribor in eastern Slovenia. Another 6-7,000 bodies were
believed to be buried in the area. Slovenia, which during the war
was occupied by Italy and Germany, became a killing field, as
thousands in the newly formed Yugoslavia, including Germans,
Italians, Hungarians, Croatians, and Serbs, tried to escape to
Austria. The Slovene government began listing "concealed graves" in
2003. By 2010 officials had a list of about 600 suspected graves, at
least one in each community, amounting to perhaps 100,000 bodies.
(SFC, 6/17/99, p.C3)(AP, 11/15/10)
1945 Some 40,000 anti-Soviet
Cossacks, who had surrendered to the British in Austria, were turned
over to the Red Army. Some 30,000 Yugoslavs were handed over to Tito
under the pretense that they were being sent to Italy. The Yugoslavs
were locked into trains and taken to Slovenia, where they were shot
and buried in mass graves.
(WSJ, 3/17/98, p.A16)
1957 Joze Plecnik, Ljubljana
architect, died at age 85. His work included the promenade of Tivoli
Park, the colonnade of the central market, a reworking of the Triple
Bridge and numerous other buildings.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.T14)
1989 Feb, The Slovenes formed
an opposition party to Communist rule.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1989-1990 Janez Drnovsek served as the Communist
president.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A11)
1990 Apr, A pro-independence
coalition won in Slovenia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1990 Dec 23, Slovenians voted
overwhelmingly in favor of independence and their republic’s
secession from Yugoslavia.
(AP,
12/23/00)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm)
1991 Jun 24, Croatia and
Slovenia voted to declare independence unless some new agreement was
reached among the Yugoslav republics.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1991 Jun 25, Slovenia
proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia.
(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm)
1991 Jun 25, The civil war in
Yugoslavia began when Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed independence
from Yugoslavia. Following months of unsuccessful talks among
Yugoslavia’s six republics about the future of the federation, the
western republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their
independence. Entities of Yugoslavia began to split off leaving
Serbia and Montenegro.
(HFA, '96, p.32)(SFC, 10/18/96,
A16)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 6/25/01)
1991 Jun 26, Slovenian crowds
gathered to declare their independence. They blockaded the barracks
of the Yugoslav army and their Territorial Defense Force attacked
border crossings and armored columns.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-5)
1991 Jun 27, Yugoslav army
tanks and helicopters attacked Slovenia. Fighting broke out between
Serbian and Croatian militias. The Slovene militia trapped an
armored column and captured 2,000 soldiers. The prisoners were
released and an agreement was reached for Slovenia to control its
own borders after a 90 day period of int’l. observation.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1991 Jul 2, A European
Community-brokered truce between Yugoslavia and the breakaway
republic of Slovenia was shattered as the federal army battled
Slovene militias.
(AP, 7/2/01)
1991 Aug 5, The Yugoslav army
called off its intervention to Slovenia’s independence.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-5)
1991 Oct 8, Slovenia and
Croatia began operating independently from Yugoslavia. Slovenia took
over its own borders and began printing its own money.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_modern_Croatia)(http://tinyurl.com/p5rhu)(SFC,
5/26/96, T-5)
1991 Dec, Germany gave
diplomatic recognition to Slovenia and Croatia. The EU said it would
recognize Croatia and Slovenia as independent states.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A19)
1991 In Ljubljana, Slovenia,
the countercultural center of Metelkova began at an abandoned
Yugoslavian army garrison following independence.
(SSFC, 5/23/04, p.D9)
1992 Jan 15, The Yugoslav
federation, founded in 1918, effectively collapsed as the European
Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
(AP, 1/15/98)
1992 Jan, A cease fire was
arranged by US Sec. of State Cyrus Vance. The EC recognized the
independence of Croatia and Slovenia. The UN approved deployment of
a peace keeping force in Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 May, Bosnia, Croatia and
Slovenia joined the UN.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Dec, In the first
democratic elections Milan Kucan was elected president and Janez
Drnovsek became prime minister.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A10)
1994 Istria was the first
region of the former Yugoslavia to be officially designated as a
"Region of Europe". The Istria of 2005, alternatively called Istra
and Istrija, is politically divided into three separate countries:
Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.
(www.istrians.com/istria/maps/)
1996 May 18, The pope arrived
at Ljubljana’s Brnik airport. He was greeted by Pres. Milan Kucan
and other dignitaries.
(SFC, 5/18/96, p.A-10)
1996 May 29, The property
claims dispute with Italy has stalled Slovenia’s entry into the EC.
A new offer has been made by Slovenia to open its property market
fully within four years of signing an EC association agreement, thus
allowing Italian claimants to buy back lost property.
(WSJ, 5/29/96, p.A6)
1996 Nov 10, Premier Janez
Drnovsek won parliamentary elections but failed to win a majority of
seats.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A11)
1999 Jun 21, Pres. Clinton
visited Slovenia, met with Pres. Milan Kucan, and praised the
country for standing up to Milosevic and declaring independence.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
2000 Dec 10, Slovenia
re-established diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 12/11/00, p.A1)
2002 Sep 10, Martin Strel of
Slovenia finished swimming the 2,360-mile length of the Mississippi.
He began July 4 and covered 11-12 miles per day.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 9, The European
Union's executive Commission declared Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
Slovenia, and Slovakia nearly ready for EU membership and
recommended they be invited to join in 2004. Romania and Bulgaria
likely will be delayed until 2007 because of weak economies, the
Commission said, adding Turkey was the weakest link among
candidates.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Nov 10, In Slovenia PM
Janez Drnovsek, who has pushed to align the tiny alpine nation
closer with Western Europe, finished 1st in presidential elections
but will have to face a runoff.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 21, The Baltic nations
of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined former communist states
Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia as the next wave of NATO
states.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Dec 1, PM Janez Drnovsek
(52) won Slovenia's presidential election and promised to keep the
former Yugoslav republic on a pro-Western course. In 1999 he had a
cancerous kidney removed, and in 2005 revealed that doctors had
diagnosed "formations" on his lungs and liver in 2001.
(AP, 12/2/02)(SSFC, 12/2/02, p.a10)(AP, 9/29/06)
2002 Dec 13, The EU reached
agreement to accept 10 new countries in 2004. These included Czech
Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A3)
2003 Mar 23, Slovenes endorsed
membership in NATO and the European Union.
(AP, 3/23/03)(AP, 3/24/03)
2004 Mar 29, Pres. Bush hosted
a White House ceremony to welcome Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania,
Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the NATO alliance.
(WSJ, 3/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 2, In Brussels an
official ceremony welcomed Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the NATO alliance.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.A11)
2004 Apr 4, In Slovenia some 95
percent of referendum voters opposed reinstating permanent residency
and other rights to more than 18,000 people, mostly Bosnians, Croats
and Serbs, whose names were stricken from state records following
independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
(AP, 4/5/04)
2004 Apr 27, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU officials signed an accord extending
the EU-Russia partnership accord to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus and
Malta, which join May 1.
(AP, 4/27/04)
2004 May 1, Revelers across
ex-communist eastern Europe celebrated their historic entry to the
European Union. 10 new members (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia)
joined. Malta joined with 70 exemptions to EU rules. Poland had 43
exemptions. Latvia had 32. The Turkish occupied area of Cyprus was
suspended from entry.
(AP, 5/1/04)(Econ, 2/28/04, p.50)(Econ, 4/16/05,
p.16)
2004 Oct 3, Slovenians voted in
parliamentary elections. Janez Jansa’s right-leaning party won
weekend elections and promised to maintain Slovenia's pro-Western
course after taking power from the Liberal Democrats.
(AP, 10/4/04)(WSJ, 10/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 9, In Slovenia Janez
Jansa (b.1956) took office as prime minister. He continued in office
until 2008.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2005 Jan 1, Slovenia was
forecast for 3.7% annual GDP growth with a population at 2 million
and GDP per head at $17,700.
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.89)
2005 Jan 22, Donald Trump
married Slovenian model Melania Knauss with all the glamour, glitz
and gold that money and star power can buy.
(AP, 1/23/05)
2005 Apr 23, Prof. Slavoj
Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist of the Univ. of
Ljubljana, attended the world premier of the documentary film
“Zizek” in San Francisco, Ca. His books included “Welcome to the
Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”
(2002).
(SSFC, 4/24/05, p.A1)
2005 May 24, In Slovenia police
said Mitja Ribicic (86), a former Yugoslav secret service leader,
has been charged in connection with the revenge killing of thousands
of Slovenes following World War II, the first such charge in this
ex-Yugoslav republic.
(AP, 5/24/05)
2005 Jul, Italian police
arrested two Slovenians who allegedly mailed steroids and other
performance-enhancing drugs to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and other
customers around the world.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2006 Feb 16, A government
spokesman said a swan found in Slovenia this month died of the
lethal H5N1 avian flu virus strain, according to laboratory tests
performed in Italy.
(Reuters, 2/16/06)
2006 Jun 16, EU leaders gave
Slovenia a green light to join the eurozone next year, launching a
new wave of expansion for the currently 12-nation single currency
club. EU leaders also gave their backing to the assessment of the
EU's executive arm that Lithuania would not be ready to join the
eurozone next year because inflation had overshot the limit required
to join.
(AFP, 6/16/06)
2006 Jul 11, EU finance
ministers made Slovenia the 13th member of the euro zone. This gave
Slovenia 5 months to print and mint euro notes to replace the tolar
on January 1.
(WSJ, 7/12/06, p.A10)
2007 Jan 1, Slovenia adopted
the euro, becoming the 13th EU nation to use the single European
currency. The transition to the euro included a 14-day period for
dual use of the euro and Slovene tolar.
(WSJ, 12/30/06, p.A4)(AP, 1/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Brazil Slovenian
Martin Strel approached the halfway point of his attempt to swim the
entire length of the Amazon river, trying to avoid severe burns,
alligators and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Apr 7, In Brazil Martin
Strel, a 52-year-old Slovenian, completed a 3,272 swim down the
Amazon River that could set a world record for distance. In 2000, he
completed an 1,866-mile swim along the Danube. He broke that record
two years later after swimming 2,360 miles down the Mississippi. In
2004 he broke it again by swimming 2,487 miles along the Yangtze
river in China.
(AP, 4/8/07)
2007 Oct 21, Lojze Peterle, a
conservative former prime minister, won the most votes in Slovenia's
tight presidential elections, but fell far short of the majority
needed to avoid a runoff.
(AP, 10/21/07)
2007 Nov 17, Slovenian trade
unions, students and pensioners staged the largest rally in the
country since independence in 1991, blocking traffic in the centre
of Ljubljana for several hours.
(AP, 11/17/07)
2007 Dec 20, Estonia, Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic halted land and sea border controls at midnight in a wave
of new members of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone. They all
joined the EU on May 1, 2004.
(AFP, 12/20/07)(WSJ, 12/21/07, p.A1)
2008 Jan 1, Slovenia became the
first of 12 newcomers to take over the rotating presidency of the EU
Union, a big psychological boost to a nation that gained
independence from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia 16 years ago.
(AP, 1/1/08)
2008 Feb 23, Janez Drnovsek
(57), former president of Slovenia, died. He helped lead Slovenia to
independence from Yugoslavia and later enthralled many of his
countrymen by adopting a New Age lifestyle.
(AP, 2/23/08)
2008 Jun 10, President Bush,
speaking in Slovenia at his final EU-US summit, said the United
States and Europe must rally to keep Iran from developing a nuclear
weapon, calling the threat an incredible danger to world peace.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jul 3, In southeastern
Slovenia two canoes were crushed running over a dam. The next day
divers pulled seven bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong
currents to search for five other people still missing.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Sep 1, Some three weeks
before the Slovenian parliamentary elections, allegations were made
in Finnish TV in a documentary broadcast by the Finnish national
broadcasting company YLE that Slovenia’s PM Jansa had received
bribes from the Finnish defense company Patria (73.2% of which is
the property of the Finnish government) in the so-called Patria
case. Jansa rejected all accusations as a media conspiracy concocted
by left-wing Slovenian journalists, and asked YLE to provide
evidence or to retract the story. Jansa's naming of individual
journalists, including some of those behind the 2007 Petition
Against Political Pressure on Slovenian Journalists, and the
perceived use of diplomatic channels in an attempt to coerce the
Finnish government into interfering with YLE editorial policy, drew
criticism from media freedom organizations such as the International
Press Institute.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2009 Nov 14, Tomaz Humar (40),
a veteran Slovenian climber, was found dead on Langtang Lirung in
the Nepalese Himalayas days after he was injured and stranded on the
23,710-foot (7,227m) mountain.
(AP, 11/14/09)
2008 Nov, In Slovenia the
Slovenian Democratic Party lost to the left wing coalition. PM Janez
Jansa was replaced by the Social Democrat leader Borut Pahor.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2008 Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian
writer, authored “Violence.” It was a smaller offspring of his
larger book “In Defense of Lost Causes,” also published this year.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, Books p.7)
2009 Jul, Slovenian prosecutors
charged a Finnish journalist who had quoted unnamed sources alleging
that former PM Janez Jansa (2004-2008) had taken bribes.
(Econ, 10/24/09,
p.62)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2010 Mar 20, Croatia and
Slovenia hosted the 1st locally organized conference of the heads of
government of the former Yugoslavia.
(Econ, 4/3/10, p.54)
2010 Apr 19, The Slovenian
parliament ratified a border arbitration deal with Croatia vital for
Zagreb's EU membership bid, but the deal still faces a much tougher
test at a June referendum in Slovenia.
(Reuters, 4/19/10)
2010 May 27, Israel officially
joined the OECD club of rich economies. PM Benjamin Netanyahu
attended a ceremony at the Paris headquarters of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development as it welcomed Israel along
with Estonia, Slovenia and Chile to the 31-nation grouping.
(AFP, 5/27/10)
2010 Jul 18, In Slovenia a
cyber mastermind, suspected of creating a malicious software code
that infected 12 million computers worldwide and orchestrating other
huge cyber scams, was arrested and questioned. His arrest came about
five months after Spanish police broke up the massive cyber scam,
arresting three of the alleged ringleaders who operated the Mariposa
botnet, which stole credit cards and online banking credentials. On
July 28 the FBI later said that a 23-year old Slovene known as
Iserdo was picked up in Maribor, after lengthy investigation by
Slovenian police, FBI and Spanish authorities. The FBI also
identified, for the first time, the three individuals arrested in
connection with the case in Spain: Florencio Carro Ruiz, known as
"Netkairo;" Jonathan Pazos Rivera, known as "Jonyloleante;" and Juan
Jose Bellido Rios, known as "Ostiator.
(AP, 7/28/10)
2010 Sep 7, In Slovenia a
government expert said a mass grave has been discovered containing
bodies of about 700 victims killed by antifascists in the wake of
World War II. Researchers examined a pit in a forest near the town
of Prevalje in the country's northeast last week and discovered the
bodies.
(AP, 9/7/10)
2010 Oct 24, Slovenia elected
Peter Bossman (54), a Ghana-born physician, as its first black
mayor. He is known as the "Obama of Piran," the town where he lives.
(AP, 10/24/10)
2010 Nov 23, Croatia’s Atlantic
Grupa food company took over Slovenia’s Droga Kolinska for $326
million. This was the biggest corporate deal in the Balkans in
recent years.
(Econ, 11/27/10, p.72)
2010 Dec 9, Former Croatian PM
Ivo Sanader, under investigation in a corruption case, left the
country crossing into Slovenia, hours before parliament voted on
lifting his immunity from prosecution so that he could be detained.
(AP, 12/9/10)
2011 Jun, The FBI and
Interpol conducted "Operation Hive," which resulted in the arrests
of two Metulji operators in Bosnia and Slovenia. The world's biggest
criminal botnet, that has enslaved tens of millions of computers
across 172 countries, was named “Metulji," Slovenian for
"butterfly."
(http://tinyurl.com/4346r4y)
2011 Oct 4, It was reported
that NASA has awarded a Pennsylvania company, Pipistrel-USA.com of
State College, a $1.35 million prize for developing an
ultra-efficient electric airplane. Wired Magazine reported that the
winning airplane "was developed and built in Slovenia as a
technology demonstrator for the airplane maker."
(http://tinyurl.com/3nk4ndh)
2011 Dec 4, Slovenians voted in
an early election expected to bring conservatives back to power,
where they will have to tackle the country's mounting debt,
unemployment and a looming recession. President Danilo Turk said
that "the most important task of the new government will be to
restart economy." The outgoing center-left government of PM Borut
Pahor has failed to push through pension and labor reform requested
by the EU. The center-left Positive Slovenia party won with 28.5% of
the ballots.
(AP, 12/4/11)(AP, 12/13/11)
2011 Dec 5, In Slovenia
preliminary results show Positive Slovenia, a center-left party,
defeated the favored conservatives. The results also indicated that
women won 28 of 90 seats, the most since the country gained
independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
(AP, 12/5/11)
2011 Dec 13, Slovenia’s state
electoral commission said the center-left Positive Slovenia party
won 28.5% of the Dec 4 ballots, or 28 seats in the 90-member
parliament. That is not enough for Positive Slovenia to form a
government on its own.
(AP, 12/13/11)
2012 Jan 27, Fitch ratings
downgraded the debt of Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain
even as European finance chiefs gathering in Davos sought to
reassure global business leaders that Europe is on track to solve
its debt crises.
(SFC, 1/27/12, p.A4)
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