|National motto: None| |Prime Minister||Anton Rop[?]| - % water
|Ranked 150th | - Total (2000) June 25, 1991 |Time zone||UTC +1|
As it is believed the Slavic ancestors of the present-day
Slovenians settled in the area in the 6th century. In the 7th
century the Slavic Duchy of Carantania, the first Slovenian
state and one of the first Slavic, was formed. In 745,
Karantania loses its independence and becomes a tantamount part
of the Frankish empire, many Slavs are gradually converted to
Christianity. Around 1000, the Freising manuscripts are written,
representing the first written document in Slovenian and the
first ever Slavic dialect written in Latin script. During the
14th century, most of Slovenia's regions pass to the possession
of the Habsburgs, which later form the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of
Carniola, Gorizia[?], and Gradisca[?], and parts of the
provinces of Istria and Styria. With the collapse of the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy in 1918, the Sloveni