Niko Županič ( Griblje, 1 December 1876 –

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, 11 September 1961) was a professor of

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at the

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. Upon outbreak of the

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, he moved to

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and joined the

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office of the

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. He was a member of the

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, an

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group of politicians and activists supporting political unification of the

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in 1915–1919, and a representative of the newly established

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at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920. Županič joined the People's Radical Party and became the president of its regional committee for

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. In 1922–1923, Županič served as the

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in the government led by prime minister

Nikola Pašić Nikola Pašić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Пашић, ; 18 December 1845 – 10 December 1926) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat. During his political career, which spanned almost five decades, he served five times as prime minis ...

. Županič was the founder and the first principal of the Ljubljana-based Slovenian Ethnographic Museum (in 1923). In 1926, he started publication of ethnological journal ''Etnolog'' in Ljubljana. His works include: * ''Žumberčani i Marindolci – Žumberčani in Marindolci'' (1912) * ''Bela Srbija'' (on

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, hypothesised ancestral land of the

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, 1922) * ''Prvobitni Hrvati'' (on origin of the

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, 1925) * ''Šišano kumstvo u Beloj krajini – Nastrižno kumstvo na Belokranjskem'' (1950)

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