Gregory's ServerAfter recently exploring the #geoweirdness of Ireland 🇮🇪, in this week's thread we stay in Europe (and the EU 🇪🇺) to consider the geographic oddities of Slovenia 🇸🇮
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3. Slovenia 🇸🇮 sits at a historic cultural tri-point, the meeting point of Slavic, Germanic, and Latin culture. The territory was part of Yugoslavia, Italy, the Austria-Hungarian empire, the German Confederation, the Holy Roman empire, and - briefly - even part of France under Napoleon. 4. Slovenia 🇸🇮 has a tiny coastline on the Adriatic, thus making the country an answer to our Aug 2022 #fridaygeotrivia question about non-island countries with <100km of coastline. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-august-2022 The exact course of the maritime border remains disputed between Croatia 🇭🇷 and Slovenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia%E2%80%93Slovenia_border_disputes#Sea_dispute 5. Nearby on the coast is the 🇮🇹 Italian city of Trieste. After World War II it was "The Free Territory of Trieste" with a governor appointed by the Allied powers. In 1954 the territory was dissolved and split between Italy and Yugoslavia (today Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory_of_Trieste Today Italian is a recognised minority language in this part of Slovenia. 6. Similarly, Slovene has official minority status in parts of neighbouring Austria 🇦🇹, Italy 🇮🇹, and Hungary 🇭🇺. Despite having only ~2.5M speakers, Slovene has 48 different distinct dialects 7. Parts of the Croatian 🇭🇷 / Slovenian 🇸🇮 border are very complex, for example around Brezovica pri Metliki where there are two tiny Croatian enclaves separated from the rest of Croatia by only a few meters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezovica_pri_Metliki 8. Most countries have various levels of sub-national administrative divisions, for example states or provinces or regions. Not Slovenia 🇸🇮. The country is divided into 212 municipalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia#Administrative_divisions_and_traditional_regions 9. 🇸🇮 Slovenia's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is "SI" and its internet top level domain (TLD) is .si Because "sí" is also the word for "yes" in Spanish, .si domains are occasionally seen as a form of domain hack in the Spanish speaking world. |
2. Slovenia 🇸🇮 is at the eastern edge of the Alps - it is one of eight Alpine countries: 🇲🇨🇫🇷🇨🇭🇱🇮🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇸🇮
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps
The country's highest peak is Mount Triglav (three head) and the mountain's three peaks are represented on the Slovenian flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Slovenia