Finance (newspaper) 

Finance (English: The Finances) is the only daily Slovenian business and financial newspaper. It is published by the company Časnik Finance, which is owned by the Swedish Bonnier Group and also publishes several other publications, for example the magazines Manager and Moje finance, the healthcare newspaper Medicina danes and the web portals Finance and Mojevro. Before becoming a daily newspaper in 2002, Finance was issued twice weekly.

Slovenia covers an area of 20,273 square kilometres and has a population of 2.06 million. Around 40% of Slovenia's land mass is elevated land—mostly in the form of mountains and plateaus—which is located in the interior regions of the country. The highest point of Slovenia is the 2,864 metre (9,396 ft) high Mount Triglav.
Culturally, Slovenia has been a border area throughout its history. Here, all major language groups of the continent meet: Slavic, Germanic, Romance The population of Slovenia has become more diverse in regard to its language through recent decades but is still relatively homogenous — Slovene is the official language in the entire territory of Slovenia and was in 2002 the first language of 87.8% of the inhabitants Recognized co-official minority languages, protected in their residential municipalities by the Constitution of Slovenia, are Hungarian and Italian, while other significant languages are Croatian, Serbian and other languages of Former Yugoslavia. The ethnic composition of the population of Slovenia has gradually become more heterogenous too. According to the 2002 census, approximately 83% of inhabitants considered themselves Slovenes. Constitutionally recognised minorities are the Italian and the Hungarian minority. A special position is also held by the Roma, which are geographically dispersed in the country. Almost 10% of the Slovenian nation are immigrants from other parts of Former Yugoslavia and their descendants. They have settled mainly in urban centres. Religiously, Slovenia is a Roman Catholic country, though the share of Catholics is diminishing quickly. In 1991, 72% of inhabitants recognised themselves as Catholics, whereas in 2002, only 58% of inhabitants recognised themselves as Catholics.

History 

The history of Slovenia chronicles the period of the Slovene territory from the 5th Century BC to the present times. In the Early Bronze Age, Proto-Illyrian tribes settled an area stretching from present-day Albania to the city of Trieste. The Holy Roman Empire controlled the land for nearly 1,000 years. Modern-day Slovenia gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, and is today a modern state and a member of the European Union and NATO.

Although Slovene history can be traced back to the 8th century, Slovenia itself is a relatively modern political entity, having been independent since 1991. The notion of "Slovenia" first emerged in the 19th century with the idea of United Slovenia, an autonomous kingdom within the Habsburg Monarchy that would unite all Slovene Lands around the Duchy of Carniola, the central Slovene-populated imperial cropland. It became a reality only after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, when Slovenia became a de facto self-governing entity within the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which it helped to create. Slovenian autonomy was later abolished with the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes of 1921, and although Slovenia proper managed to regain territorial integrity in 1931 as the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it did not enjoy actual autonomy, and the name itself was not officially in use. Slovenia became an autonomous political entity after World War II, as a full-scale republic, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Its current borders were finalized in 1954, with the abolition of the Free Territory of Trieste and the official annexation of the Koper district of the so-called Zone B of the Free Territory to Yugoslavia, which was confirmed by the Treaty of Osimo in 1975.
During its history, the current territory of Slovenia was part of many different state formations, including the Roman Empire, the Frankish Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice (only some western areas), the Habsburg Monarchy, and the First French Empire. In 1918, the Slovenes exercised self-determination for the first time by co-founding the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, with their western territories remaining in the Kingdom of Italy. During World War Two, Slovenia was occupied and annexed by Germany, Italy and Hungary, only to emerge afterwards reunified with its western part (Slovenian Littoral) as a founding member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before declaring full sovereignty in 1991.

 

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Ethnic composition of Slovenia
Slovene			83.06%
Serbian			1.98%
Croatian			1.81%
Bosnian			1.10%
other minorities			4.85%
undeclared or unknown			8.9%