Recently, after so many years of waiting, the construction of this route has been realized, in addition to the extension of the A3 so it connects Zagreb to Croatian borders with both Serbia ( near Lipovac ) and Slovenia ( near Bregana ).

This policy has been in place since late 2004 but excludes the EU countries ( namely, Slovenia and Italy ).

It has 2, 258 km of boundaries, shared with Austria to the west, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia to the south and southwest, Romania to the southeast, Ukraine to the northeast, and Slovakia to the north.

Jason has connections outside of the classical world, as he is seen as being the mythical founder of the city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

The international community has settled on karst, the German name for Kras, a region in Slovenia partially extending into Italy, where it is called " Carso " and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made.

Since the late 90s in Austria, slow release oral morphine has been used alongside methadone and buprenorphine for OST and more recently it has been approved in Slovenia and Bulgaria, and it has gained approval in other EU nations including the United Kingdom, although its use is not as of yet not as widespread.

Slovenia has little political instability.

Slovenia has been a member of the United Nations since May 1992 and of the Council of Europe since May 1993.

Since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia has instituted a stable, multi-party, democratic political system, characterized by regular elections, a free press, and an excellent human rights record.

However, Slovenia is the only former Communist state that has never carried out lustration.

Ten years after independence, Slovenia has made tremendous progress establishing democratic institutions, enshrining respect for human rights, establishing a market economy and adapting its military to Western norms and standards.

Upon achieving independence, Slovenia offered citizenship to all residents, regardless of ethnicity or origin, avoiding a sectarian trap that has caught out many central European countries.

Slovenia willingly accepted refugees from the fighting in Bosnia and has since participated in international stabilization efforts in the region.

On the international front, Slovenia has advanced rapidly toward integration into the Euro-Atlantic community of nations.

Invited to begin accession negotiations with the European Union in November 1998, Slovenia has achieve two of its primary foreign policy goals: membership in the EU and NATO.

Slovenia has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) and has sought to demonstrate its preparedness to take on the responsibilities and burdens of membership in the Alliance.

Due to the out-of-date infrastructure, the share of the railway freight transport has been in decline in Slovenia despite growing slightly in absolute terms.

The air transport in Slovenia is quite low, but has significantly grown since 1991.

* Slovenia has observer status, like the United States, in ( the Turkish proposed ) Multinational Peacekeeping Force Southeast European ( MPFSEE ), with other participants being Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey ;

* Since November 1997, Slovenia has participated in its first United Nations peacekeeping operation, contributing 27 troops to an Austrian UNFICYP contingent on Cyprus.

Slovenia also has peacekeepers with the UN at Naharya Ogl, Israel, on the Lebanese border.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

The crisis in Kosovo and, in 1986, the emergence of Slobodan Milošević in Serbia provoked a very negative reaction in Croatia and Slovenia ; politicians from both republics feared that his motives would threaten their republics ' autonomy.

According to France Bučar, one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence, the democracy in Slovenia is very weak, with the power concentrated in the hands of a few people, as in the time of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia before 1991, and the Parliament being only a formal institution.

* Slovenia contributed to IFOR ( logistical support ) and is very engaged in the SFOR effort, providing VIP support helicopter and light transport aircraft missions and use of an airbase in southern Slovenia ;

The bilateral relations between Italy and Slovenia have improved dramatically since 1994 and are now at a very good level.

His arrival in Ljubljana 1919 was very important for development of mathematics in Slovenia.

In Slovenia, the word selo is used for very small villages ( less than a thousand people ) and in dialects ; the Slovene word vas is used all over Slovenia.

In Slovenia, a jam-filled doughnut known as krofi, is very popular.

In Slovenia, the Discovery Channel is one of the most popular channels, with a very wide audience, especially after subtitling in Slovene was introduced.

The latter denomination comes from the Slovene word Benečija, a very common alternative name for Venetian Slovenia, but avoided in written and official use in order to avoid confusion because it is also the Slovene name for the Italian Veneto region.

Apart from many fresh intellectual ideas and innovations ( for the Slovenian circumstances and intellectual coordinates, but very likely also in a wider sense ) Taja Kramberger has written many critical articles on various aspects of Slovenian history, cultural life, but also on broader European History and culture, e. g. on Spanish Civil War, different models of Enlightenment in Europe and the recurrent Enlightenment features in the works of Anton Tomaž Linhart, on epistemic divergence between Enlightenment's and Historismus's: de: Historismus ( Geschichtswissenschaft ) paradigms of historiography, on anthropology of translation, history of university and the formation of university habitus: fr: Habitus ( sociologie ), on literary and cultural fields: fr: Pierre Bourdieu # Théorie des champs in the 1930s in Slovenia ( by then partially covered by the administrative unit of Dravska banovina ) and on the role of women in the constitution of these fields etc.

The ease of movement between the two parts of town have depended very much on the politics of both countries, ranging from strict controls to total free movement since December 21, 2007 when Slovenia joined the Schengen area.

Knez is nowadays a very common surname in some ex-Yugoslavian countries, mostly in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, but also among immigrants in Slovenia and Bosnia

Johann Puch () ( June 27, 1862 in Sakušak, Jursinci, near Ptuj, Slovenia – July 19, 1914 in Zagreb, Croatia ) was an inventor and mechanic who went on to become a very significant vehicle producer in Europe.

Slovenia recognizes Romani as a minority language, but this official recognition has very little factual consequences.

There are however significant variations between regions: it's very common in central Slovenia ( in the regions around Ljubljana and Celje ), as well as in parts of southern Slovenia and eastern Slovenia ( Lower Carniola, Prekmurje ).

He was also very keen on establishing a central public study library in Ljubljana and it was on his initiatives that the Lyceum Library in Ljubljana, the predecessor of the present National and University Library of Slovenia.

* was broadcast on TV Slovenia as Supermedo and become very popular.

Slovenia's vast hilly landscape and undamaged nature makes very good conditions for downhill cycling, thus one of the world's top, not only tracks but riders are also in Slovenia.

Trieste is situated in the northernmost part of the high Adriatic in North-east Italy, near the border with Slovenia.

Before finishing high school Ivo Lah volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian army to defend the western borders of Slovenia.

He attended elementary school and high school in Srebrenica, after which he graduated at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Maribor in Slovenia in 1979.

Near the peak, there is a 90 meter high telecommunications tower of the Radio-Television Slovenia.

The 360 m ( 1, 200 ft ) high chimney of the Trbovlje coal power plant on the shore of the river Sava near Trbovlje, Slovenia was poured in 210 days, and required 11, 866m³ of concrete and 1, 079 tons of reinforcing steel.

Since the independence of Slovenia in 1991 Primorje was one of the top Slovenian clubs, having spent a total of 18 seasons in the Slovenian PrvaLiga until the club folded, following the 2010 – 11 season when they were, due to a high financial debt, unable to obtain competition licences issued by the Football Association of Slovenia.

At the age of 15, he became the chairman of the high school student's section of the Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia, the autonomous youth branch of the Communist Party.

He soon rose to high political posts in the Drava Banovina and was among the founders of the autonomous Communist Party of Slovenia in 1937.