Slovenian Littoral

  • Primorska ( 1) is one of the five historical regions of Slovenia.

Primorska (Slovenian Littoral ) is a region in Slovenia, on the border to the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. It extends from the Slovenian Adriatic coast in the south to the Julian Alps in the north.

The region is on the former Habsburg crown land "Austrian Littoral " back. Although she was mostly Slovene, she fell as a result of the Treaty of Saint- Germain of 1919 to Italy and became part of the newly formed region of Venezia Giulia ( Venezia Giulia ). During the period of Italian fascism, the underground organization TIGR was fighting for the annexation to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1945 a part of the territory of the Free State of Trieste, the supreme Sontig contrast to Slovenia, the republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The northern part of the Free Territory of Trieste (Slovene Svobodno tržaško ozemlje ) fell in 1954 to Italy back (formerly "Zone A"). The South ( the former 'Zone B' ) was the former Yugoslavia connected: the majority of Istria in Croatia, the rest of Slovenia, where it forms the Primorska region by 1945 had fallen to Slovenia upper Sontigtal.

The center of the Primorska region is Nova Gorica, which is also known as the " Rose City". Other important cities of this region are the Adriatic ports of Koper, Izola, Piran and Portorož.

The southern part of the city of Koper is also called Slovenska Istra ( Slovenian Istria), according to the statistical regions of Slovenia, the area lies partly in the Goriška regija ( Gorizia ) and partly in the Obalno - kraška regija (coastal land and karst ).

Koroško (Carinthia ) | Kranjska ( Carniola ) | Primorska ( Littoral ) | Lower Styria (Steiermark ) | Prekmurje ( Prekmurje )

  • Geography (Slovenia )
  • Istria
  • Coastal Region of the Mediterranean
  • Historic landscapes and regions in Europe
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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