The Courthouse ( sl, Sodna palača) in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

, the capital of Slovenia, is a 19th-century building in the central district of the city that has for many years served as the seat of various regional courts of law. The Courthouse was built after the earthquake in 1895 and it was renovated in the early 1950s. In the late 1940s, it was used for the

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s against opponents of the Yugoslav

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regime in the

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. The most famous were the so-called Rožman trial in 1945, the

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in 1946 and the Dachau trials in 1947. The courthouse underwent an extensive renovation in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, Slovenian Minister of Justice

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announced that in three years time most of the courts of law housed in the building would move to new headquarters near the

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* Palaces in Ljubljana Judiciary of Slovenia Center District, Ljubljana Courthouses {{palace-stub