United Slovenia

United Slovenia (Slovenian Zedinjena Slovenija ) was the name and program that came about when the Slovenian Association was formed on April 20, 1848 in Vienna with Francesco Miklošič as spokesman. The program was based on the ideas Matija Majar - Ziljskis and a petition in Graz, Austria on a Slovene kingdom within the Habsburg Empire.

Petitions

United Slovenia called for the establishment of a Slovene Kingdom with its own parliament and that this should be part of the Habsburg monarchy, but not the German Reich. The Slovenian language should be equated with the German and introduced in schools and public administration. The petition was bilingual and was printed in several thousand copies, with the accompanying leaflet Kaj bomo Slovenci cesarja prosili - What we Slovenes ask the emperor, circulated to gather signatures. United Slovenia was a radical break with previous cultural and political Slovenian positions. The pamphlet argued that we should reorganize the Habsburg monarchy. The leader of the Slovene nationalist movement realized that the Slavs could form the majority in a federal Austria and wanted the administrative, political and economic independence. Similar petitions were of the Slovenian associations at this time in the cities, where Slovenes lived, worked: Graz, Vienna, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt and Gorizia. Slovenes in Hungary and Venice were also included in the intention of United Slovenia boundaries.

Result

The claims were not supported by Slovenian citizens or scholars. Although Janez lead Weis (1808-1881), the program accepted in principle, or at least not rejected, he claimed that the Slovenes not enough " spiritual power " would have to implement it. Lead Weis was the founder and editor of the conservative magazine Kmetijske in rokodelske novice - Agricultural and craft messages and he had a realistic picture of the attitude of Slovenes on the subject. The idea historically established areas to share and create new boundaries for a not yet existing Slovenia were the most Slovenes alien. Although they considered themselves as Slovenes, a part of their identity lay in the regions and provinces as their home, more than in the Habsburg Empire.