The geography is used for all, even to continue to affirm that Slovénie is in Balkans, and that with the contempt of most elementary... the geography. Is it with saying that the geographers are masked ideologists, or more serious incompetents of reading a card!!!! Take for example " the state of world 2000 ", published by " the discovery " in 1999, you will find Slovénie in the Balkan countries with Albania . Admittedly this book is not to be strictly accurate a book of geography, but it claims to draw up a state of the world.
Though it is, veiled how in 1872 E Cortambert presented, him, which approaches the most Slovénie current: " the duchy of Carniole, in German Krain, contains the central part of Illyrie. The Alps Carniques and Juliennes the beam. Save is the principal river. There are beautiful valleys, and much of natural curiosities; inter alia, remarkable caves trés and abysses where are lost the rivers: it reigns there a climate trés favorable to the southernmost productions. The capital is Laibach, on Save, with 18000 hearts. One notices in the same country: Idria, famous for its rich person mines of mercury, and meadows of which one finds the curious lake intermittent of Zirknitz; Adelsberg, which has famous caves by their extent and their stalactites. (1) This analysis délicieusement obsolete and in the final analysis more " geographical " that not badly of others more recent... Twice smaller than the Rhone-Alps area, twice also less populated (20256 km against 43698km and 2 million inhabitants against almost 6000000) Slovénie is in the category of the small countries of our continent, with Slovaquie, or Switzerland. Slovénie is a country " between ": between Western Europe, and central and Eastern Europe; between alpine and Danubian Europe and the balkans. This place in the European geography could be an asset for the future, if the states of Europe of south-east could find a stability guarantor of an economic rebirth. For the moment the only observable transition, in fact the landscapes give it to us to see. Their organizations are rather simple: on the basis of the Alps Juliennes, the landscapes are directed in three directions: towards the Panonienne plain, towards the Dinariques chains, and the Mediterranean littoral. The littoral slovene, 47 km length, and its back Primorje country gives a small Mediterranean key to a country where the mountain printed its aspect with the landscape and was binding like way of life to its inhabitants. A small rock coast which of Koper, while passing by Insulated and Piran, finishes in the salt-water marshes of the mouth of the Dragonia river. Koper is the great maritime outlet of Slovénie, connected by rail to the remainder of the country. Tourism, the proximity with Trst/Trieste gives to this small corner of the Mediterranean, all its value for the slovene unit the more so as the road links with the capital, and Maribor improve. The motorway of Koper with Ljubjana when it is finished, will form an essential axis of Slovénie, even of median Europe. This small littoral is very venitien in the architecture of its cities and villages; agriculture that one finds there is like all Mediterranean agricultures. The vine, for example, is one of the characteristics of the places.
The Dinariques mountains, or Karst, are a calcareous plate of sorted. Arid spaces, perforated like a strainer by swallow-holes and dolines. The rivers are lost there to reappear in vauclusienne source. Area of Polje and dolina (valley), spectacular around Trst/Trieste which is inserted then in direction of Croatia. In small basins of collapse which retain moisture one finds small " oases " cultivated well.
The Alps juliennes and the karavanken give to Slovénie its most spectacular landscapes. Walls primarily limestones, the nodes of the Alps juliennes are sometimes notched by circuses and troughs refrigerators. Triglav, symbol of Slovénie, dominate the country of its 2864m. It is the center since 1981, of a national park; one finds it at the end of a deep valley (Trenta), when one arrives from Italy by Bovec, valley which offers spectacular karstic phenomena, upset by the glaciation. The Soca river takes its source there. Undoubtedly the mythical c?ur of Slovénie.
In the East of the valley of Save, natural barrier with Austria, the chain of the karavanken, is degraded while widening in a zone of average mountains and basins of éffondrement. Most significant and that of Ljubljana (280000 inhabitants). The city owes its relative importance in the towns of Europe, with its positioning, between the plain of the Danube, Trst, and Austria in north. Roman colony, warehouse of grains coming from Slavonie by Save, the train which arrives there in 1849 upsets the local economy and makes increase the population. Center political, intellectual of Slovénie, the city can only benefit from the development of the exchanges in new Europe.
In the east of Ljubljana, the préalpes- Dolenjska- crossed by Krka. Novo Mesto, at the border of Croatia, capital of the Slovène car. (Renault). Area of vineyards, with a short wine trail which ends in Bela Krajina. In north east of the capital, Maribor, second city of the country (110000 inhabitants), city which profits from its proximity with Austria, Hungary, Croatia, in the center of an agricultural rich person basin. And finally Prekmurje, the beginning of the plain of Panonie, the landscapes very " is European " where saw the Hungarophone minority of the country.
I will not insist on the climatic range slovene, you will discover one day contrasts between the littoral and the karst, the hard winters and it " will bora " icy wind. But know that this climate does not prevent a long-lived mixed-farming in Slovénie. With 2 million inhabitants, Slovénie does not exceed war the town of Lyon. Slovènes form more than 90% of the total. The population quasi doubled in one century (1 101 854 in 1857), and that in spite of the vicissitudes of the history. The German minorities (since the XIII° century), Italian (since always on the littoral), Hungarian women, give to Slovénie an aspect multiethnic, which does not pose problems in this democratic company. The demographic dynamism slovene is in the standard (low) developed countries of Europe, but a death rate still too high explains quantified prospections of the population in fall in the future (1 966 000). Slovènes age, like all the people of rich Europe.
The economy slovene is based on a well formed hand of?uvre, but the risk of the transition towards a market economy made unemployment one of the great concerns of the country (14,6% of the working population). What is all the same the low rate of unemployment of space ex-Yugoslavian.Agriculture, just like elsewhere in developed Europe, is a secondary activity. It employs - of 10% of the working population. Mixed-farming (corn, corn, etc), breeding, vine, forests great national richness, here are principal productions, transformed by a significant agroalimentary sector. The privatization of the grounds reveals heavy dispute, in particular with the Church...! The secondary industry (industry) benefits from an old industrial tradition which goes up at the average age (mining industry). The metallurgical sector dominates. The " hydro-electric power " was the energy which invents the alpine metallurgy, here aussi(aujourd' today, 75% of energy and nuclear origin). This industry present in all the cities (steel, non-ferrous metals, aluminium, etc), is finally derived from this type of activity: establishment of Renault with Novo Mesto. This traditional sector (sometimes in crise)s' add more modern, and better capable companies of undercutting to resist a possible integration with the European union. Economically remain the craft industry, trés present, because it benefitted the most from privatizations at the end of Communism. The development of the tertiary sector, since the end of " socialism " is spectacular: banking environment, various commercial activities, tourism (let us hope maitrized for a long time!), start-up, it is a Slovénie news which has appeared for 10 years. Admittedly all that will depend, of the improvement of connections with all the parts of Europe (motorway network, railroad 40% are already electrified, air link), all that will also depend on the relationships to the European union (which represents already more than 60% of the imports and exports slovenes). That is a business which depends on the people slovene.