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Ivan Cankar District
The Ivan Cankar District (; sl, Mestna četrt Ivan Cankar) is a city district of the City Municipality of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It is named after Ivan Cankar Ivan Cankar (, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slo ..., one of Slovenia's greatest writers. In 2014, the district had a population of 7,242. References {{coord, 46, 33, 37, N, 15, 38, 59, E, type:adm2nd_scale:50000_region:SI, display=title Districts of the City Municipality of Maribor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Municipality Of Maribor
The City Municipality of Maribor (), also the City of Maribor ( sl, Mestna občina Maribor, acronym MOM), is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The population of the municipality was 113,778 in January 2021. Settlements In addition to the municipal seat of Maribor, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Bresternica * Celestrina * Dogoše * Gaj nad Mariborom * Grušova * Hrastje * Hrenca * Jelovec * Kamnica * Laznica * Limbuš * Malečnik * Meljski Hrib * Metava * Nebova * Pekel * Pekre * Počehova * Razvanje * Ribniško Selo * Rošpoh – part * Ruperče * Šober * Srednje * Trčova * Vinarje * Vodole * Vrhov Dol * Za Kalvarijo * Zgornji Slemen – part * Zrkovci References External links * Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar (, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce. Biography Ivan Cankar was born in the Carniolan town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana. He was one of the many children of a poor artisan who emigrated to Bosnia shortly after Ivan's birth. He was raised by his mother, Neža Cankar née Pivk, with whom he established a close, but ambivalent relationship. The figure of a self-sacrificing and submissively repressive mother would later become one of the most recognizable features of Cankar's prose. After finishing grammar school in his hometown, he studied at the Technical High School (''Realka'') in Ljubljana (1888–1896). During this period, he started writing l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
