// ADVENT SLOVENIA

HISTORY

brief history of slovenia: the area has been settled for thousands of years. until the 1st century b.c., these were illyrian and celtic tribes. then the roman empire took over, for altogether about 400 years.

at around 650 first slovene federations occurred. next phases: the german holy empire, then the habsburg empire, then the venice empire.

after ww-1 "yugoslavia" was shaped. this became fully installed after ww-2, as a socialist state. however, in 1989 yugoslavia collapsed, and finally 6 separate countries resulted - beside slovenia: serbia: bosnia, croatia, macedonia, montenegro.

slovenia is now a parliamentary republic.