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 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. 5 comments
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. |
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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_dialects
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