German. 98% of the population speaks German as a first language. There are distinct differences between the many regional dialects, and also a wide variation in the standard Hochdeutsch spoken from region to region. In the province of Carinthia, Slovene is the official language. Other languages spoken in Austria include Croatian and Hungarian. Family is an important part of the Austrian social culture. The family is generally small because of a lack of migration, and very closely knit within a certain
Australia. Accommodation facilitates and respects the immigrants. The immigrants will be given some space for them to maintain their traditions and some other differentiated rights. Some of examples are the first Slovene church was built in 1968, many Slovene clubs were organized, and a Slovene language program was aired on the Australian radio.
replete with religious imagery?priests, ... ... middle of paper ... ...jana: Modrian. Markovski, Venko. 1984. Goli Otok: The Island of Death. Boulder: Social Science Monographs. Mila?, Metod. 2002. Resistance, Imprisonment & Forced Labor. A Slovene Student in World War II [= Studies in Modern European History 47]. New York: Peter Lang. Reindl, Donald F. 2001. Mass Graves from the Communist Past Haunt Slovenia?s Present, RFE/RL Newsline 5.225 (29 November), available at http://www.rferl
a symbol of life so it was often given to young women from men. Carnation together with heart is esential element of Slovenian national decor. You can find it on bonnet, farmhouse stoves, and embroidered on traditional tablecloths. Straditional Slovene house windows were often decorated with poted carnations, so these hanging flowers became symbolic, still often seen on Slovenian windows.
Yugoslavia was fabricated in the year of 1918. Located near the country of Italy, the territory is now broken up into six independent countries. The nation started to fall apart in the late 1980 's, following the World War II victory for the Allies. While some countries can benefit from diversity, there was just too much for Yugoslavia to survive. Yugoslavia as a nation failed because of too much autonomy between the six nations that came to be, too many different cultures in one nation, and simply
of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship after the war controlled
languages spoken in Italy include the official language, Italian. On top of this, parts of the country such as Trentino- Alto Adige region speak mainly German. French speakers can also be found in parts, such as in the Valle d’Aosta region, and lastly Slovene is spoken in minority, in the Trieste-Gorizia part. A large majority of the population practices the Christian religion, at 80%. The legal system found in Italy is the civil law system. Military branches found throughout Italy include the Italian
Genocide is the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. In Germany during World War II a man named Hitler tried to eliminate any race except for what he called the "Arian" race. In the process he committed genocide by killing off 6 million Jews and a total of 8 million people in all. Europe was going through some very hard times during the mid 1900's so that no one was able to see a disaster such as the Holocaust coming. Many things led to the
Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with independent Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. This modern Yugoslavia existed from 1945 until the 90’s. Before the 20th century, the region found itself between two great empires, the Ottoman Empire
The Republic of Macedonia, a small country located in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 8th September 1991. The Republic of Macedonia now shares its borders with five neighboring countries (alphabetically as follows): Albania (Western Neighbor), Bulgaria (Eastern Neighbor), Greece (Southern Neighbor), Kosovo and Serbia (Northern Neighbors). The population of Macedonia is approximately two million people, out of which 64% are native Macedonians, and the
The Bosnian Genocide: It was Completely Preventable Imagine if today there was an attempt by a major military power to violently slaughter and exile the native people of a neighboring country, using the same tactics the Nazis used in the Holocaust. Surely there would be a worldwide uproar, and powerful nations would organize to stop the violent annexation and genocide, right? Unfortunately, such an event has already happened, practically within the last twenty years. Despite the fact that many people
across northern Asia and Pacific Ocean. Customarily, Slavs are subdivided into East Slavs(chiefly Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians), West Slavs(chiefly Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends, or Sorbs), and South Slavs(chiefly Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes, Macedonians, and Montenegrins).” Hitler also attacked the Soviet Union to seize the oil reserves of the caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. The Wehrmacht employed some 600,000 motor vehicles, and between 600,000 and 700
Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Eight other countries joined the pact after this ... ... middle of paper ... ... around the agreements terms, because the pact never fully explained what it meant by “self-defense”. The dominant powers, USA
centuries we've seen chaos and order ebb and flow amongst the ethnic groups of the Balkans. From the Adriatic to the West, and the Black sea to the East; Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Romanians, Serbs, Slovenes, and Turks are widely spread across this mostly mountainous region. Higher elevations experience bitter cold and windy winters, and the majority those regions suffers from poor quality soil making tillage difficult. In the midst of the various mountain
stronger nation. Tito’s rise to power documents the values he gained throughout his youth, which shaped him to be a fit ruler. Born on May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec in northern Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the seventh child of Slovene and Croat parents , Tito moved to Sisak, in central Croatia, where he worked as a machinist’s apprentice . Joining a union of metallurgy workers, Tito was introduced to the labour movement and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia
from behavior and personality and are used to establish behaviors for determining the style of effective leadership. In this study, a quantitative methodology was used in the investigation of determinants of leadership styles among the leaders at Slovene hospitals focusing on importance of mobility in nursing leadership.
Austria-Hungary was pretty much the accomplishment of a family (The Hapsburgs) as opposed to of a vanquishing country. They have brought together a gigantic land in which various countries lived (Hungarians, Czechs, Germans, Slovenes...) when nationality appeared to be unimportant. The people groups of the Empire lived separately in rather independent kingdoms, duchies and so forth. The pressures started when the total sovereigns looked to surrender the autonomies of the areas
Part 1 (a) Identify one of the Righteous Gentiles from the list on the Yad Vashem website and describe there background and who they saved during the holocaust Oskar Schindler, Born in April 28, 1908, was one of the main righteous gentiles during the holocaust, this is greatly for his role in saving over 1,200 Jewish people from almost certain death of the extermination camps. With large wealth from his enamel business and deep connections will SS officials, Schindler Gained a reputation as a committed
actually took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia, when a group of insubordinate Serbs assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand (heir to Austria-Hungary). In the ashes of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, the Baltic countries formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918. The Kingdom united as the country of Yugoslavia in 1929, of which Bosnia was a constituent republic until Nazi Germany invaded in 1941. After Nazi Germany fell, President Marshall Tito took over the country and controlled it. Although President
and Serbs has been a continual issue since the fourteenth century. Ethnic conflicts rose again after the death of Tito who was the leader of Yugoslavia. Tito set up a national Yugoslav government and let the five Slavic nationalities (Serb, Croat, Slovene, Montenegrin, and Macedonian) govern their own part of Yugoslavia which suppressed any ethnic fighting (Andryszewski 14). After the death of Tito in 1980, ethnic conflicts began to come to surface again. Slobodan Milosevic gave a speech to the Serbs