The Slovene peasant revolt ( sl, slovenski kmečki upor, german: Windischer Bauernbund), also known as the All-Slovene Peasant Uprising (), took place in 1515 and was the largest peasant revolt in the Slovene Lands. It engulfed most of what is now Slovenia as well as a significant portion of the province of

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, which today is a part of Austria. There were about 80,000 rebels who demanded the reintroduction of the original feudal obligations and trade rights (the so-called "old rights"; sl, stara pravda) and a right to decide about the taxes. The spark which started this uprising was when the ethnic German peasants of the

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region killed their lord Jorg von Thurn. They attacked the

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s within the region, except in the territory of the

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, where conflicts were solved through negotiations. The revolt was put down by the mercenaries of the Holy Roman Empire, with the deciding battle fought at

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. The words ''stara pravda'' were printed in 1515 in Vienna in a poem of the German mercenaries and were the first printed Slovene words.

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