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Lower Styria (; ; Latin: Styria) is a historical region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria.

Use of the name

The Duchy of Styria, which existed as a dinstict political-administrative entity from the 12th century to 1918, used to be divided into three traditional regions: the northern two-thirds of the former duchy, known historically as Upper and Central Styria, have been German-speaking and are today part of the Austrian State of Styria . The southernmost third of the former duchy, known as Lower Styria, was predominantly Slovene speaking and is today part of Slovenia, where it's simply referred to as Štajerska, for example "Styria".
Lower Styria isn't to be confused with Southern Styria, the southern part of Central Styria, which belongs to the Austrian State of Styria.

History

In 1918, after the disentigation of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire following World War I, the Duchy of Styria was divided between the newly established states of German Austria and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Rudolf Maister, a Slovene major of the former Austro-Hungarian Army, occupied the town of Maribor in November 1918 and claimed it to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. After a short fight with German Austrian provisional units, the current border was established, which mostly followed the ethnic-linguistic division between Slovenes and ethnic Germans.
Already in December 1918, all of Lower Styria was de facto included in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia).
In April 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Lower Styria was annexed to the Third Reich. After World War II, Yugoslav authority over the region was re-established and Lower Styria became an integral part of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. Since June 25 1991, Lower Styria is part of the independent Republic of Slovenia.

Political status

Lower Styria has no official status as an administrative unit within Slovenia (though a new law will establish provincial administrative units, it hasn't come into force as of May 2008)), although the association with the informal province (Slovenian pokrajina) is very common.

Cities

The capital city of Styria is Maribor. Other major towns are Celje, Velenje, Ptuj, Slovenj Gradec, Sevnica and Brežice.

Tourism

Lower Styria is famous for its white wine, ski resort Pohorje, cultural festivals and pumpkin seed oil.

Famous people from the region

Anton Aškerc, poet
Aleš Čeh, football (soccer) player
Jolanda Čeplak, athlete
Peter Dajnko, philologist and poet
Karel Destovnik Kajuh, poet
Mladen Dolar, philosopher
Vekoslav Grmič, theologian
Drago Jančar, writer
Edvard Kocbek, writer, poet, thinker and politician
Anton Korošec, politician, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Fran Miklošič, linguist
Matija Murko, linguist and ethnographer
Johann Puch, inventor
Jože Pučnik, dissident, politician and sociologist
Miha Remec, author
Anton Martin Slomšek, Roman Catholic bishop
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian military hero
Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia
Beno Udrih, basketball player
Stanko Vraz, poet
Hugo Wolf, composer
Zlatko Zahovič, football player

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