American Reacts Top 10 Places To Visit In Slovenia - Travel Guide
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You are welcome. Slovenian and Slovaks are not the same people, but the language is Slavic. Thx for video
SLOVENIJA IS very Green and very beautiful ❤🎉😊....with the Coast sea and the lakes.....❤🎉😊❤🎉😊
I was in Slovenia last week, definately a beautiful country
Go again. Spend time there. It’s great.
A sun facing slope helps the grapes ripen, especially in more northen areas where the climate is cooler then further south.
Slovenia is a Slavic, alpine country. It has heavy Germanic cultural influences though, that have made it less Balkan, but it is still pretty Slavic and Central European. Slovakia and Slovenia derive their names from the Slavic group of languages, hence the similar name.
Agreed - up to a point, regarding Austrian/Teutonic influence. But Italian/Venetian influences are arguably even stronger. And of course, there are notable Hungarian influences the further east one travels.
Slovenia is a delightful bouillabaisse. I’m glad that it ‘works’ so well now that it’s independent and governed by Slovenes.
It’s been a tremendous success. I’ve been visiting the area for 53 years. Love the place; love the people.
Best wishes
@@robertcottam8824 Italian/Venetic influence is strong only on the coast of Slovenia, since that part used to belong to the Venetian Republic for centuries. But because of Trieste being a very important port of the Habsburgs, there was some cultural exchange through that as well. Hungarian influence is found only in the far northeast, Prekmurje region, which used to be part of the Hungarian Kingdom. Rest of Slovenia was under germanic, mostly Austrian, influence for around a thousand years, till 1918, and it still shows in our language, the way we count, some of the common last names, architecture, etc. Not sure what you mean with Teutonic, unless you mean it as general "German peoples".
But we are a mixture of all three, slavic, germanic and italic, with a bit of Hungarian paprika. Mostly slavic tho, because our language is slavic, and without our language, we probably would not exist today.. just be another region of Austria, or Croatia, etc. who knows, maybe part Italy.
@@JaPakaj
I take your point. And you will know more than me, of course.
Unfortunately, because of Brexidiocy, I had to leave beautiful Slovenia. But I miss it.
I recognise the Austrian/Teutonic influences in areas such as the hills to the east of Drvača, of course. But those homes were empty, decades ago…
As an outsider who loved and tried to understand your country, my overall impression was the Venetian on the coast; the Hungarian in the east; the later-Italian down through bits like Koper, Izola …
I miss it, that’s all.
Hmmm… the south east, as if one was heading to Zagreb/Fiume/Rijeka… I ain’t been there in a very long time…
I get things wrong but I love your country - even if I’ve never felt the Austrian influence south of Bohinj…
And now I’m a bit confused… But I love your country and I’m drunk.
That isn`t nor Germanic nor Romance influence. It is Alpine character, which has nothing in common with Romance and Germanic culture. From Val D`Iserre (Izaro means in Slovene language lake) to the Julian Alps and Vienna same Alpine people lived, with same culture and common habits. They just speak different languages.
Slovak call themselves Slovenci and their country Slovenska republica. Their women are Slovenke same us our women in Slovenia. Slovak call us Slovinci, becaise they are Slovenci. And we cal ourselves Slovenci. In fact, about 1200 years ago we were the same nation. Than Hungarians (not Hunnsm but Magyars) have come and split as in two nations. Of course with help of Germans from north. Our ancestors have lived from east Tirol in Austria to the Vienna in middle ages. In 7th century AD Slavic empire was established from Slovenia to the Baltic sea.
Austrian is mixture of Germanic and Slavic world. And Slovenia is similar but more Slavic with Germanic attitude and cultural influence. More on German side them Balkan side. Slovakia is Total different country Slovenians dont identify or know much about
That WW1 battle area was the setting for Ernest Hemingway's book "A Farewell to Arms".
Have you ever been to the museum at Caporetto/Kobarid? It’s one of the most effective memorials to the tragedy of WW1 that I’ve ever been to - not excluding Verdun, Ypres, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval.
‘The Black Room’ there reduced me to tears. And I don’t cry easily.
Best wishes
SLOVENIJA IS Independent country from 1991 and was ones under Avstro-Ogrska....it is bettwen Italy,Avstria, Croatia, Hungaria.....
s❤LOVE❤nija❤🎉😊
Wow I never expected to see my home country in here. Most of the world tend to not know about us, because of our small size (only 2mio population) And a very small land area. From Ljubljana you can get to anywhere in the country in maximum 1-2 hours of driving. Relating to your Ottoman empire video, if you noticed most of the churches were build on top of hills. That is because Ottomans used to come here in the middle ages and people lived in constant fear, because Ottomans were killing, raping and pillaging people of this land and lands around us regulary, so the churches served as lookouts, so the people could spot them soon enough to hide from them. Most of the churches built in that era also had a wall around them to protect them from being demolished or burnt down by the Ottomans. Those were some rough times. It suprises me that we managed to survive that era, as a nation.
That Christianity - both Orthodox and Catholic survived could be due to the generally tolerant attitude of the Ottomans… Their rule was undoubtedly venal, inefficient and exploitative (name me a contemporary government that wasn’t) but on the whole, they were quite happy to let their subjects practice their own religions - as long as they paid for the privilege.
Where did Sephardic Jews go after they were expelled from Christian Spain? Why, Salonica of course. Can’t get much closer to Constantinople/Istanbul than that.
Let’s further contrast the Turks with the intolerance of Christian Western Europe, shall we?
Over to you.
Pip pip.
@@robertcottam8824 Slovenia was never ruled by Turks, but HRE was almost constantly at war with the encroaching Ottoman empire, our lands were daru'l-harb (home of war) for the Ottomans, which means a place where everything was allowed and everything was done to the enemy as @jernejulcar8325 said. People here did not saw any of the achievments of the Ottomans just their bestiality in war.
Slovenian lands were basically colonies in all but name for a 1000 years and a battleground of different European powers (Ottomans being one of them).
@@valentintapata2268
Thank you for this. I TRY to understand. In the process, I get things wrong! But my intent is genuine.
As a nephew of a chap whose comrades were shot by the Germans - after surrender - in Belgium, 1940: a nephew of another who became a ‘guest of the Japanese’ after Singapore; the grandson of a chap who fought the Turks in Palestine… I’m inclined to believe that most folk are ‘cnuts’!
Irrespective of all that, when I’m in Slovenia, I’m generally happier than I am, elsewhere.
I lived in Parecag which, as you will know, is right on the cusp of Slovenia/Istria/Croatia.
As such, I can recognise that my ‘impressions’ maybe ‘Yugoslav’ - rather than specifically Slovenian..
Best wishes.
As my real name has special meaning (Hell) it made me explore this country. I didn't find a slovenian metalband shirt. But i did dicover a beautiful country.
Then, obviously you didn't explore hard enough if you didn't visit Metalcamp in Tolmin. I am sure you could get some local metal band shirts there.
Vineyards don't require a slope at all, just (preferably) a rocky or loamy underground. Flat terrain usually has a more sandy soil or clay even and is more suitable for grasses and thus corn and grains.
Vineyards are mostly on the slopes, because of more warmer place for vines. On the bottom are mostly maise fields. Vineyards are most on south and southwest places. On the north side is mostly grass. Villages and vineries are mostly on the top. On east side of Slovenia is village Jerusalem. It has the same landscape as Jerusalem in near east. Crusaders have establoshed Jerusalem in Slovenia on the returning home. They have found the place as same as Jerusalem in Israel.
@@bojanstare8667 I can show you a zilion vineyards that are on lands with no slope in sight or at least on flat ground ...
@@laziojohnny79 Of course. But we are talking about Slovenia. In Slovenia it is really few places on plain because climate isn`t so warm. So most of vineyards are on the slopes.
@@bojanstare8667 Kay, I was refering to what Connor said about vineyards in general tho, not particular those in Slovenia.
Slovenia is an Alpine country. Most of the different regions are in the Alps or in their foothills.
Do Slovenes and Slovaks have common roots? Yes, definitely. Both are Slavic peoples that speak Slavic languages. Slovene belongs to the South Slavic languages and Slovak to the West Slavin languages. But Czech and Slovak share specific characteristics with the South Slavic languages that the other West Slavic languages don't.
Fun fact. both languages call themselves "Slovensko" which can lead to confusion.
The video shows Lake Bohinj but doesn't mention that on the lake's western side is a beautiful Savica waterfall.
Castle Predyama is very interesting because of its more recent history as it was used by Yugoslav partisans in WW2. Among other features was a printing press to counteract German propaganda. The cave behind the castle is vast including a "backdoor".
There are (imho) four big ommissions:
1. Postojna Yama. This is a vast cave system with beautiful stalactites. The part open to the public is only a fraction of the whole system. The walking tour was about 4 hours when I last visited.
2. Near Bled is the small village of Radovljica with its apiary museum. Honey bees and honey is a veritable branch of Slovenian agriculture. And where else in the world can you encounter a beehive in the form of a Yanichar (Turkish soldier of foreign birth)?
3. Maribor is the second-largest city in Slovenia - and one of the oldest. It has a picturesque historic city center, one of the largest wine cellars in the world and allegedly the oldest grapevine in the world.
4. Lipica. It's the home of the stables of Lipica and the only Slovenian horse breed "Lipizzan".
Slovenija. Ja...ni celotno "alpin countrey"...je še več. Predvsem na vshodu. Zatorej...trikotnik med Ljubljano in Kranjem, in slovensko obalo...ne omenjajte več kot, da je to "samo" Slovenija. Kar se tiče ostalega zapisa...številka 3...ne, ga ne poznate.
4. Lipica is the oldest stud farm in Europe still in function.
You have forgotten also Cerknica lake. Kočevski Rog with most concentration of brown nears in Europe. Jerusalem vineyardfs. Thermal Spas in east Slovenia. River Mura with floating mills. etc.... Idrija mercury mine museum
@@bojanstare8667 I can only talk about things I've experienced myself.
@@twinmama42 OK, you could visit those sights next time.
Emona is romans name for Ljubljana. It was important coty in romanian time.
Emona wasn`t Ljubljana. "old Ljubljan" was eastabkished in pre Roman time on and under the castle hill. That`s why old Romans have builded new town outside on plain. Ptuj/Petovia is a different case. Old Roman town was builded almost on the same place as today.
Slovenia may still be in the Balkans geographically, but not culturally. Culturally, it is closer to Central Europe. Slovakia and Slovenia have nothing in common, except for a similar name and of course that they are both Slavic countries. As a Slovenian, I am very proud of the cleanliness of our country, the beautiful green landscape, I hope it stays that way, despite the integration from the south, where they don't value nature and the environment that much.
Back in the day (pre-1990) when Yugoslavia was still behind the Iron curtain, Slovenia, along with the western part of Czechoslovakia (now Czechia) was always seen to be the most "Westernised" part of Eastern Europe. Luckily for them, when Yugoslavia collapsed, the war of Independence was (relatively) painless for Slovenia as it only bordered Croatia, and not the "mixed" areas of Serbia or Bosnia. They transitioned faster than anywhere. It's a small but incredibly varied and beautiful country...
Yugoslavia was behind the iron curtain only for a couple of years, until 1948. I think you may be confusing “the iron curtain” with communism. The iron curtain didnt refer to communist countries, but to the eastern bloc which Yugoslavia was not a part of since 1948 when it broke off from Soviet influence.
Yugoslavia was not under the " iron curtain". Stalin's influence was present only from 1945-48., if ever. It was always pro- western oriented , many European, World royalties and the most famous people were regular visitors. Slovenia was never in a war , they only killed 10 Yugoslav soldiers( 18 old kids) who didn't' attack them. The fact that you never were in any war ever and that Tito transferred most of Yugoslavian industry to the west , while leaving Bosnia , Serbia , Macedonia and Montenegro undeveloped, useful only for supplying you with raw materials for the industry helped a lot. The second thing that was also helpful is that you don't allow minorities, any non- slovenian citizen must declare as a Slovenian only. Still , nature is beautiful.
Yugoslavia totaly opened it's borders with all neighbour countries since 1959. For example number of persons passed only Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) - Italy border per year already in the middle of seventies surpassed 100 million per year. This is probably more than in all ex. communist European countries to the west countries together.
‘Yugoslavia’ wasn’t ever really under Russian influence, of course. Controlling it would have been too difficult for the Red Army. 🙄. (By the same token it’s peoples never fully accepted Ottoman rule for over 400 years.)
Having said that, visiting Slovenia/Istria was a bit of a faff before the 1980s. It may be a ‘false memory’ - I was quite young - but travelling from Trieste/Trst across the border and down the road past Koper, Porto Rož etc was quite forbidding in 1971. There was a plenty of barbed wire and tanks…
It isn’t ‘trendy’ to say so nowadays but Tito negotiated a very fine line. On the one hand, the Russians were clearly unwelcome; at the same time, so were the Brits (initially) and the Americans.
So Churchill, when he spoke of the ‘Iron Curtain’, “from Stettin to Trieste”, he was not correct in actualité. But it DEFINITELY suited both Warsaw Pact and NATO for that to be accepted as ‘realpolitik’.
It would have suited nobody - least of all Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bosnians/Bosniaks Kosovans, Macedonians… - for The Cold War to turn hot in the area formerly-known-as Yugoslavia.
It’s topography and peoples are too intractable and unforgiving. I admire both.
Best wishes
@@LikeICare155 we do allow minorities, the hungarian and italian minorities are legally defined and have their own rights, it's just that the definition of minority we sue is 'people who were living here before and are now here because of the border change'. Yugoslavs who moved here during the yugoslav era are not a minority by this definition, neither did they have to declare they are slovenian (ethnically) they just had to get a slovenian citizenship, since they now lived there
11:50 Not slopes in, steals in.
So much of our coast was stolen by both Croats and Italians.
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Wellcome (as Slovenian I think that is one of best "home made videos"- thruly one ;
We have also many celtics caracteristics. Celtics tibes in Norik, Carni,... Did you know that Norocs had coinsore before Romes.
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Celts there were just elite in Noric. They were defeated by Greeks in Greece and they have returned in Noric. All other people were Alpini populus, written by old Romans. Our archeologist jave found in last excavations very few or almost no Celtic graves in Slovenia. Most of graves in west of Slovenia are of Veneti origin.
Yeah, we small but cute as fuck.
And since this video is about Slovenia, may I suggest a relevant video for you to react to next? Balkan Schools Were Different by Living Ironically In Europe
edit: to answer your questions:
0:45 we were a part of Yugoslavia so there's definitely Balkan roots. But on the coast and south-west part of the country, there's Italian influence, as well as Austrian towards the north. Other Balkan nations often see us as wannabe Austrians.
3:25 Slovakia and Slovenia are only similar in the name and in that we're both slavic nations. I mean, if you look at slavic nations, you'll find common things in all of our cultures, but that's about it. I'm sure someone else will also mention the overused fact about how mail gets regularly sent to the wrong country so we exchange it often.
11:47 you get honorary citizenship for mentioning the thieving bastards of Italy. TRST JE NAŠ
Trst je vaš👍
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Slovenia has genetic ties to Slovakia and West Ukraine, but culturaly is like Bavaria and Venice with some Slavic base
Slovenia and Slovakia both mean ''land of slavs''.
Slovenia and Slovakia are VERY different, no similarities, very different cultures.
Slovenia is a Balkan country and was part of former Yugoslavia.
However, Slovenia was the most outer regions of former Yugoslavia and its proximities to Italy and Austria means it often has a mixed Italian-Austrian vibe to it.
Slovakia was part of former Czechoslovakia, and now independent. Slovakia is very different.
As an outsider, many words are similar. I ‘get it’ that the languages are as different - more so - than English and German. But there are SOME similarities - greetings, numbers, food…
There just ARE!
Best wishes
Literally both names mean ''Land of Slavs''. But culturally they are not similar.
former part of Yugoslavia