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Slovenia factfile
Jeremy Lennard and Jukka Viskari
Wednesday April 21, 2004
Vital statistics
Population: 2m
Capital: Ljubljana
Size: 7,722 sq miles
Major economic activity
The services sector employs 60.5% of the workforce, industry 36.3% and agriculture 3.2%
GDP per capita
?11,700
Voters who backed EU membership
90%
Brief timeline
1918: After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Slovenia joins the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1929: The kingdom becomes known as Yugoslavia.
1941: Slovenia is occupied by Nazi Germany and Italy during the second world war.
1945: At the end of the war, Slovenia becomes a constituent republic of socialist Yugoslavia.
1989: Slovene parliament confirms the right of the country to secede from the Yugoslav federation.
1990: First multiparty elections. Milan Kucan becomes president. Overwhelming majority of Slovenes vote for independence in a referendum.
1991: Slovenia, along with Croatia, declares its independence. The Yugoslav federal army intervenes. Slovene forces defend the country. About 100 people are killed. The EU brokers a ceasefire and the Yugoslav army withdraws.
1992: The EU, and then the US, recognise Slovenia s independence, and the country joins the United Nations. Milan Kucan re-elected president.
1993: Slovenia becomes a member of the International Monetary Fund.
1996: Slovenia signs an association agreement with the EU.
1997: Milan Kucan re-elected president. The EU opens full membership talks with Slovenia.
1999: Slovenia allows Nato to use its air space during the bombing of Kosovo and Serbia.
2002: Slovenia is one of seven countries formally invited to join Nato at Prague summit.
2003: Referendum vote backs both EU and Nato membership.
2004: Slovenia admitted to Nato.
Famous Slovenians
Milan Kucan. Born 1941. First president of independent Slovenia.
Joze Plecnik. 1872-1964. Architect, nicknamed the "Slovenian Gaudi".
Leon Stukelj. 1898-1999. Gymnast who won eight gold, four silver and five bronze medals in three Olympic Games and three World Championships.
Martin Stret. Born 1954. Ultra marathon swimmer who has swum the Danube (2,860km) and Mississippi (3,885km) and holds the world s long-distance swimming record (3,004km in 58 days).
Ivana Kobilca (Realist painter)
Top fact
The Postojna Cave in Slovenia is home to a creature known as the "human fish"
No1 song this week
Superstar by Jamelia
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