Ptuj
Ptuj ( German Pettau, latin Poetovio, in inscriptions Petovio, Petabio, Petavio, Poetavio, Potabio and Patavio, Greek Ποτόβιον Potabion and Παταβίων Patabion ) is the oldest town in Slovenia, the oldest town of the former Duchy of Styria, with 23,957 inhabitants ( 2008) and consists of the cadastral Grajena, Grajenščak, Kicar, Krčevina pri Vurbergu, Mestni vrh, Pacinje, Podvinci, Ptuj, Spodnji Velovlek and Spuhlja.
At the same time it is the seat of the administrative unit (Slovenian Upravna Enota ) Ptuj. This administers the municipality of Ptuj and the municipalities Hajdina, Markovci, Gorišnica, Dornava, Kidričevo, Destrnik, Trnovska vas, Sveti Andraž goricah v Slovenskih, Juršinci, Videm, Zavrč Podlehnik Žetale and Majšperk.
Geography
Ptuj is located in the Slovenian region Lower Styria ( Lower Styria ) an der Drau, 25 km drauabwärts of Maribor.
History
The current urban area was already inhabited in the Neolithic period. Essential for the development of the settlement in pre-Roman times and then was its location along the Amber Road. However, Relative importance won Pettau until the time of the Roman Empire. In the year 69 AD, Vespasian was proclaimed in Ptuj to the Roman Emperor. Under Emperor Trajan, the settlement became a town and was called Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio an important military, commercial and administrative center. Until his plundered by the Huns about 40,000 people lived on the territory of the present-day city. After the Avars Slavs populated the area. Under the Slavic princes Pribinov Ptuj was part of the Pannonian principality. Then it came to the archbishopric of Salzburg, whose most important ministry officials in the area were the lords of Ptuj, and 1500 to the Habsburg Duchy of Styria, in which it remained until 1918/1919. The standards adopted in 1376, city statutes were the basis for an economic boom. However, the significance of the city decreased significantly in the wake of clashes with the Ottoman Empire and by natural disasters.
An incision in the city's history was the construction of the Southern Railway between Vienna and Trieste end of the 19th century. At the time, went the distance on Marburg ( Maribor), and Pettau remained without promotion. Population and importance dwindled rapidly.
When disintegration of Austria-Hungary 1918/19, the area of Ptuj has been claimed by the newly founded Republic of German Austria, but it came without a vote of Yugoslavia. The original predominantly German -speaking city population Pettaus (1910 in the Old Town 86 % ) decreased by Slawisierungspolitik the interwar period already considerable. The surrounding villages also spoke before 1919 almost exclusively Slovene. 1941-1944 under the National Socialist regime and occupation by the Wehrmacht, the Slovenian population was partially expropriated and deported and settled in turn sold ( from 1939 under the agreement between Mussolini and Hitler) from their home German from South Tyrol and the Gottschee ( Krain ), the then in 1945 were distributed with the old-established German Pettauern or fled and in Austria, but also in America were admitted. Since 1945, the city is inhabited almost entirely by Slovenes.
Community partnerships
Ptuj has partnerships with the following cities and towns:
- Burghausen ( Germany )
- Varaždin (Croatia )
- Aranđelovac (Serbia )
- Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia )
- Saint- Cyr- sur- Loire ( France)
- Ohrid (Macedonia)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Victorinus of Poetovio († 303), Bishop, Church Father, exegete, Martyr
- Alfred Amschl (1852-1926), an Austrian jurist and writer
- Wiesinger, Otto (1879-1962), Austrian general of infantry
- Walter Semetkowski (1886-1965), Styrian state as well as NS - Gaukonservator and Education Officer
- Saria Baldwin (1893-1974), historian, archaeologist and author
- Pirich Hermann (1906-1980), journalist and writer
- Angela Salloker (1913-2006), actress
- Zdenko Verdenik ( b. 1949 ), former Slovenian team boss
- Vilko Filac (1950-2008), cinematographer
- Željko Spasojevic (born 1973 ), football player
- Aleš Šteger (born 1973 ), Slovenian author
- Dejan Zavec (born 1976 ), world champion boxer
- Marko Bezjak (* 1986), handball players