Slovenia

officially the **Republic of Slovenia** is a country in Central Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital and largest city of Slovenia is [|Ljubljana (watch the movie).] Slovenia covers an area of 20,273 square kilometres and has a population of about 2 million. Around 40% of Slovenia's land mass is elevated land - mostly in the form of mountains and plateaus - which is located in the interior regions of the country. The highest point of Slovenia is the 2,864 metres (9,396 ft) high Mount [|Triglav], the lowest point is the Adriatic Sea at sea level. The majority of the population speaks Slovenian which is also the country's official language. Other local protected official languages are Hungarian and Italian. Slovenia was part of the Roman Empire ; partly the Republic of Venice ; the principality of Carantania (only modern Slovenia's northern part); the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Holy Roman Empire ; the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Habsburg Monarchy ; the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Austrian Empire (later known as <span class="wiki_link_ext">Austria-Hungary ); the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929); partly <span class="wiki_link_ext">Kingdom of Italy ; <span class="wiki_link_ext">between the two World Wars it was occupied and or annexed by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945); and the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 until recent independence in 1991. Slovenia is a member of the <span class="wiki_link_ext">European Union, the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Eurozone , the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Schengen area , the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe , the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Council of Europe , <span class="wiki_link_ext">NATO , <span class="wiki_link_ext">UNESCO , <span class="wiki_link_ext">WTO , and <span class="wiki_link_ext">UN.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">SLOVENIA **

__Slovenia is a highly developed country.__

You can see 10 minutes presentation on [|YouTube] and you will see, that Slovenija is realy very beautiful country. From the mountains, to the Adriatic sea and lot of nice people.

**PRIMARY SCHOOL ŠMARJETA**
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 * short presentation of our school [[file:oš šmarjeta,comenius.pps]]
 * short movie about our school

Romanian Comenius team from Slovenija

21th February we had EMA, that is national competition for European Song Contest in May 2010 in Oslo Here is the winner, Ansambel Roka Žlindre in Kalamari with song Narodnozabavni Rock It is mix between Slowenian folk music and rock :) [|our winner]