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Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Slovene border landscape transformation

Jernej Zupančič

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, Issue 1 (2017), Volume 7 (2017), pp. 10 - 18

https://doi.org/10.4467/24512249JG.17.002.6201

The paper is analyzing the contemporary processes inside border areas. Due to different political destinies trough near past, the distinct border sectors developed various types of borderlands: mainly open and structurally asymetric in the west and north and close-like and symetric on the east. The border toward Croatia is the youngest and therefore still in turbulent accomodation to the border situations. The paper take special attention to recent spatial processes: from close and rich crossborder

cooperation to ignorance or abandonding of planning measures and avoidance. Second main attention is taken to the minorities settled inside borderlends and their influence to borderlands.

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Slovene minority issues

Jernej Zupančič

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, Issue 3 (2016), Volume 6 (2016), pp. 5 - 17

https://doi.org/10.4467/24512249JG.16.015.5802

The contribution explains the historical development of the political boundaries of Slovene states and the creation of minorities as political bodies in Slovenia and in the neighboring countries, as well as the creation of Slovene Diasporas in Europe and around the world. The ethnic development of Slovenes can only be understood within the context of the general ethno-national, political-territorial and socio-economic processes in Europe since the beginning of 19th century. In the treatise, we deal with ethnic minorities and minority policies as typical political heritage of Europe: the destiny, problem and challenge, but an advantage as well. Due to the size and importance of minorities, Slovenia count to the minority sensible countries. Legal and actual Protection of autochthonous minorities in Slovenia is normatively wide and realized consistently, while Slovene minorities in neighboring countries have much worse formal-political baseline.

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Strategic importance of the seaport of Koper, Slovenia

Jernej Zupančič

Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 19 (3), 2016, pp. 18 - 26

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543859XPKG.16.014.6312

Presented is the development of the city and the port of Koper in the Upper Adriatic and its role as a regional transport node. Koper is in fact a substitute port-city; it developed after the decline of Trieste in the post-WW2 period because of the needs of Slovenian economy within ideologically polarized Europe during the 1950s. Favourable economic connections between Slovenia and the wider hinterlands in Central Europe facilitated the development of this port into an important North Adriatic transport node, with over 20 million tons of cargo per year and specialization for transportation of cars, timber, containers and finer commodities.

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