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49-624: The bank was established in 1900 by Živnostenská Banka on the advice of Ljubljana's Mayor Ivan Hribar , in line with Živnostenská's strategy of expansion into the Slavic-speaking parts of the Habsburg monarchy . By the founding assembly held on 24 August 1900 on the bank's original premises on Špitalska street, Hribar was elected president and Josip Spitalsky, then head of Živnostenská's branch in Vienna, became vice president. Živnostenská Banka held half of

98-626: A Czech bank in Ljubljana between 1876 and 1919. In the 1880s he became involved in politics, soon emerging as one of the leading figures of the Slovene national liberalism in Austria-Hungary . Together with his close political ally Ivan Tavčar he founded the National Party of Carniola, later renamed to National Progressive Party . From 1882 he served as city councillor of Laibach . In 1896 he

147-574: A Celtic tribe, in the southwest. Carniola formed part of the Roman province of Pannonia ; the northern part was joined to Noricum , the south-western and south-eastern parts and the city of Aemona to Venice and Istria . In the time of Augustus all the region from Aemona to the Kolpa River (Culpa) belonged to the province of Savia . After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476), Carniola

196-552: A dominant position following that bank's bankruptcy in 1925, ahead of local rivals the Credit Institute for Commerce and Industry ( Slovene : Kreditni zavod za trgovino in industrijo , the former local branch of Austria's Creditanstalt converted into a fully-fledged local bank in 1920) and the Cooperative Business Bank ( Slovene : Zadružna gospodarska banka ). In 1927, it merged with Trgovska banka, thus forming

245-624: A part of Carniola. After the division of Friuli , it became an independent margraviate , having its own Slavic margrave residing at Kranj , subject to the governor of Bavaria at first, and after 976 to the Dukes of Carinthia . Henry IV gave it to the Patriarch of Aquileia (1071) and it formed part of the Patriarchal State of Friuli . Several sources from the High Middle Ages suggest that there

294-609: A part of the Holy Roman Empire , the area was successively ruled by Bavarian , Frankish and local nobility, and eventually by the Austrian Habsburgs almost continuously from 1335 to 1918, though beset by many raids from the Ottomans and rebellions by local residents against Habsburg rule from the 15th to the 17th centuries. From about 900 AD until the 20th century, Carniola's ruling classes and urban areas spoke German , while

343-628: A part of the new territory from 1809 to 1813. The defeat of Napoleon restored Carniola to Austrian Emperor Francis I , with larger boundaries, but at the extinction of the Illyrian Kingdom Carniola was confined to the limits outlined at the Congress of Vienna , 1815. From 1816 to 1849 Carniola was part of the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria with capital in Ljubljana. In early Christian times

392-458: A post he held until the implementation of the new subdivisions in 1923. As a staunch advocate of Yugoslav nation building , he supported the centralist dictatorship of King Alexander . In 1932 he was appointed senator by the king and remained one until 1938 when he retired. In the late 1930s he voiced his support for a common political platform of all patriotic anti-fascist forces. In 1940, after Hitler 's Invasion of France , he became one of

441-414: A single chamber of thirty-seven members, among whom the prince-bishop sits ex-officio. The emperor convened the legislature, and it is presided over by the governor. The landed interests elected ten members, the cities and towns eight, the commercial and industrial boards two, the village communes sixteen. In 1907, instead of these rules, universal and equal suffrage for all men was introduced. The business of

490-534: A third of its liabilities were still "frozen" despite the prior conversion of a large amount of claims into preferred shares. It remained under moratorium throughout the war period. LKB was eventually liquidated in December 1945, together with the entire banking sector of Yugoslavia. Operations that were not terminated were consolidated into the National Bank of Yugoslavia and State Investment Bank , itself merged into

539-665: Is the Ljubljana Marsh , and a series of hot and mineral springs which can be found at Dolenjske Toplice , Šmarješke Toplice , and Izlake . Agriculture thrived more in Upper Carniola than in Lower Carniola. The Vipava Valley was especially famous for its wine and vegetables, and for its mild climate. The average temperature was 56 °F (13 °C) in spring, 77 °F (25 °C) in summer, 59 °F (15 °C) in autumn, and 26 °F (−3 °C) in winter. In 1910

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588-696: The Avars , but around 623 they joined the Slavic tribal union of Samo . After Samo's death in AD 658, they fell again under the Avar rule, but most probably enjoyed partial autonomy. Carniola was governed by the Franks about the year 788, and was Christianized by missionaries from the Patriarchate of Aquileia and others. When Charlemagne established the margraviate of Friuli , he added to it

637-507: The Bishop of Lavant received Mokronog . Among secular potentates, the Dukes of Meran , Gorizia , Babenberg , and Zilli held possessions given to them in fief by the patriarchs of Aquileia. The dukes governed the province for nearly half a century. Finally Carniola was given in fief with the consent of the patriarch to Frederick II of Austria , who obtained the title of duke in 1245. Frederick

686-706: The Carniolan Provincial Diet, and between 1907 and 1911 as member of the Austrian Parliament . During his political activity in Austria-Hungary, Hribar was a great supporter of collaboration between Slovenes and other Slavic peoples , especially Czechs . He made many efforts to bring Czech investments to the Slovene Lands and he helped to establish several institutions on the Czech model, most famously

735-647: The Illyrian Provinces ; it was returned to Austria in 1815 , forming part of the Kingdom of Illyria . In 1849 Illyria was dissolved and Carniola became a crown land in its own right; the three traditional subdivisions were also abolished. In 1867 it became part of Cisleithania , the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary . It remained so until 1918, when it seceded as part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs , becoming part of

784-710: The Italian annexation of Ljubljana . On 18 April, after returning home from a meeting with the Fascist Italian authorities, which had just offered him the mayorship of the city, he jumped into the Ljubljanica River, wrapped in the Yugoslav flag . He left a note with verses from France Prešeren 's poem The Baptism on the Savica : Manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili , kot so pod svetlim soncem sužnji dnovi . Less fearful

833-650: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia); it ceased to exist de jure with the passing of the Vidovdan Constitution in 1921. Nowadays, its territory (in the extent at its dissolution) is almost entirely located in Slovenia, except for a small part in Italy , around Fusine in Valromana . Carniola in its final form, established in 1815, encompassed 9,904 km (3,824 sq mi). In 1914, before

882-642: The Sokol athletic association . He is also said to have based the reconstruction of Ljubljana so that the town would resemble Prague . Due to his Panslavic ideas, he was imprisoned twice during World War I , between August and December 1914 and between January and March 1915. Between April 1915 and June 1917, he was placed in house arrest in an estate in Land Salzburg , far from his homeland, in order to isolate him from his potential political allies. Together with Mihajlo Rostohar , Hribar also played an important role in

931-711: The Habsburgs (one of the so-called Erblande ), Carniola was part of the Austrian Circle of the Empire from the early 16th century. Informally it was part of Inner Austria . It was subdivided into Upper , Lower , and Inner Carniola . In 1804 it became part of the newly established Austrian Empire and in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. In 1809 it was ceded to the First French Empire , becoming part of

980-473: The National Bank in 1952. In 1920, the bank started construction of a new head office building designed by Czech architect František Krásný  [ cs ] with sculptures by Franc Berneker , prominently located on Slovenska Cesta  [ sl ] (then named Tyrševa Cesta). The building was completed in 1923. It was taken over by the National Bank following LKB's liquidation, and in 1991 became

1029-766: The beginning of World War I, it had a population of slightly under 530,000, of whom 95% were Slovenes. The region is crossed by the Julian Alps and the Karawanks . The highest mountain peaks are Nanos , 4,200 feet (1,300 m); Vremščica , 3,360 feet (1,020 m); Snežnik , 5,900 feet (1,800 m); and Triglav , 9,300 feet (2,800 m). The main rivers are the Sava , Tržič Bistrica , Kokra , Kamnik Bistrica , Sora , Ljubljanica , Mirna , Krka , and Kolpa rivers. Notable lakes include Black Lake ( Slovene : Črno jezero ), Lake Bohinj , Lake Bled , and Lake Cerknica . Nearby

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1078-462: The chamber was restricted to legislating on agriculture, public and charitable institutions, administration of communes, church and school affairs, the transportation and housing of soldiers in war and during manoeuvres, and other local matters. The land budget of 1901 amounted to 3,573,280 crowns ($ 714,656). In 1918, the duchy ceased to exist and its territory became part of the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and subsequently part of

1127-599: The city's public finances. During his time in office Hribar often clashed with the ethnic German minority of Ljubljana on a number of issues. He remained in office until 1910, when the Emperor Franz Joseph I refused to confirm his reelection, because of his alleged role in anti-German riots two years earlier, in which two Slovenian students were shot by the Austro-Hungarian Army . He was succeeded by Ivan Tavčar . Between 1889 and 1908, he served as member of

1176-540: The construction of the Dragon Bridge : all of these buildings are nowadays considered as central symbols of Ljubljana. Hribar's aim was to transform Ljubljana into a prestigious centre of all Slovene Lands and thus create a cultural and economic capital for the Slovenian people . He carried out a radical modernization of the city's infrastructure, including electrification and the introduction of trams . He also cleaned up

1225-482: The crownland. The Austrian Empire reorganized the territory in 1849 as a duchy and a Cisleithanian crownland in Austria-Hungary known as the Duchy of Carniola . It was bounded on the north by Carinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria; with area of 3,857 square miles (9,990 km ) and population of 510,000. The capital, Ljubljana ,

1274-546: The duchy was under the jurisdiction of the metropolitans of Aquileia (who became Patriarchs), Syrmium, and Salona. In consequence of the immigration of the pagan Slovenes, this arrangement was not a lasting one. After they had embraced Christianity in the seventh and eighth centuries Charlemagne conferred the major part of Carniola on the Patriarchate of Aquileia, and the remainder on the Diocese of Trieste . In 1100 that patriarchate

1323-584: The equity capital. The bank soon opened its first branch in Split . LKB survived the turmoil of World War I and remained controlled by Živnostenská Banka. By 1924, it had foreign branches in Trieste and Gorizia , and domestic ones in Brežice , Celje , Črnomelj , Kranj , Maribor , Metković , Novi Sad , Ptuj , Sarajevo , and Split . On its core Slovenian market, it was briefly eclipsed by Slavenska Banka but regained

1372-591: The establishment of the University of Ljubljana . After the end of World War I and the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , he withdrew from party politics, although he remained active in public life. Between 1919 and 1921, he served as the Yugoslav Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia . In 1921 he was appointed provisional representative of the Yugoslav central government in Slovenia,

1421-618: The founders of the "Association of Friends of the Soviet Union ," which served as one of the rallying grounds for the later development of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People . Hribar was known as a passionate politician and a great Slovene and Yugoslav patriot. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Hribar committed suicide (at the age of eighty-nine) as a protest against

1470-404: The home parliament to enact all laws not reserved to the imperial diet, at which it was represented by eleven delegates, of whom two elected by the landowners, three by the cities, towns, commercial and industrial boards, five by the village communes, and one by a fifth curia by secret ballot, every duly registered male twenty-four years of age has the right to vote. The home legislature consisted of

1519-529: The largest bank in Slovenia and the fourth-largest in all of Yugoslavia. Like most other domestic commercial banks in Yugoslavia, LKB was heavily impacted by the European banking crisis of 1931 and had to adopt a voluntary program placing a moratorium on its liabilities in the spring of 1932, from which it partly emerged through a restructuring in 1935 in which only small depositors were repaid in full. By 1940, about

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1568-529: The long night of life’s denial Than living ‘neath the sun in subjugation! After World War II, the embankment of Ljubljanica from which Ivan Hribar jumped into the river was named after him. On 30 August 2010, a monument to Hribar was unveiled on the Hribar Embankment ( Slovene : Hribarjevo nabrežje ), next to the Shoemakers' Bridge ( Čevljarski most ), not far from the place of his death. The monument

1617-558: The main railroads were the Southern, Prince Rudolf, Bohinj, Kamnik, Lower Carniola, and Vrhnika railroads. The principal cities and towns in the region were Kamnik , Kranj , Tržič , Vrhnika , Vipava , Idrija , Turjak , Ribnica , Metlika , Novo Mesto , and Vače . After the fall of the Roman Empire , Lombards settled in Carniola, followed by Slavs around the sixth century AD. As

1666-463: The meeting at Augsburg in 1282, he gave in fief to his sons Albrecht and Rudolf the province of Carniola, but it was leased to Meinhard, count of Gorizia-Tirol . Duke Henry of Carinthia claimed Carniola; and the Dukes of Austria asserted their claim as successors to the Bohemian kingdom. When Henry died 1335 Jan, King of Bohemia, renounced his claims, and Albrecht, Duke of Austria, received Carniola; it

1715-618: The peasantry spoke Slovene . The capital of Carniola, originally located at Kranj ( German : Krainburg ), was briefly moved to Kamnik ( German : Stein ) and finally to the current capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana ( German : Laibach ). Before the coming of the Romans ( c.  200 BC ), the Taurisci dwelt in the north of Carniola, the Pannonians in the southeast, the Iapodes or Carni ,

1764-419: The region still tend to identify with its traditional parts Upper Carniola , Lower Carniola (with the sub-part of White Carniola ), and to a lesser degree with Inner Carniola . In 1991, 47% of the population of Slovenia lived within the borders of the former Duchy of Carniola . The March of Carniola was a state of the Holy Roman Empire , established as an immediate territory in the 11th century. From

1813-484: The seat of the newly established Bank of Slovenia . Ivan Hribar Ivan Hribar (19 September 1851 – 18 April 1941) was a Slovene and Yugoslav banker , politician , diplomat and journalist . During the start of the 20th century, he was one of the leaders of the National Progressive Party , and one of the most important figures of Slovene liberal nationalism . Between 1896 and 1910, he

1862-503: The second half of the 13th century it was ruled by the Habsburgs and its capital was Ljubljana (Laibach); previous overlords had their seats in Kranj (Krainburg) and Kamnik (Stein), which are therefore sometimes referred to as its earlier capitals. In the 14th century the Duchy of Carniola was declared, a status which was formally recognised in the 16th century. As a hereditary possession of

1911-628: Was a common Carantanian (that is, Carinthian) identity that slowly vanished after the 14th century and was replaced by a regional Carniolan identity. In the Middle Ages the Church held much property in Carniola, and thus in 974 in Upper and Lower Carniola the Bishop of Freising became in 974 a feudal lord of the town of Škofja Loka , the Bishop of Brixen held Bled and possessions in the Bohinj Valley, and

1960-406: Was attached to Aquileia, later on to Gorizia and Trieste . At the redistribution of dioceses (1787 to 1791) not all the parishes in Carniola were included in the Diocese of Ljubljana, but this was accomplished in 1833, by taking two deaneries from the Diocese of Trieste, one from Gorizia, and one parish from the Diocese of Lavant, so as to include all the territory within the political boundaries of

2009-411: Was created by the Bosnian Slovenian sculptor Mirsad Begić . Carniola Carniola ( Slovene : Kranjska [ˈkɾàːnska] ; German : Krain [kʁaɪn] ; Italian : Carniola ; Hungarian : Krajna ) is a historical region that comprised parts of present-day Slovenia . Although as a whole it does not exist anymore, Slovenes living within the former borders of

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2058-427: Was divided into five archdeaconries, of which Krain was one. The diocese of Ljubljana or Laibach was established by Emperor Frederick III on 6 December 1461. It was directly subject to the pope. This was confirmed by a Bull of Pope Pius II, 10 September 1462. The new diocese consisted of part of Upper Carniola, two parishes in Lower Carniola, and a portion of Lower Styria and Carinthia; the remaining portion of Carniola

2107-399: Was elected mayor of Ljubljana and became famous for implementing a large scale reconstruction of the town after the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895. He invited the architect Max Fabiani to make a new urban development plan for the town. This included the complete renovation of Prešeren Square and the area around the Triple Bridge (the Kresija Palace and the Philip Mansion ), as well as

2156-586: Was incorporated into Odoacer 's Kingdom of Italy, and then in 493, under Theodoric, it formed part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom . Between the upper Sava and the Soča rivers lived the Carni, and towards the end of the sixth century Slavs settled the region called by Latin writers Carnia , or Carniola meaning 'little Carnia'; i.e., part of greater Carnia. The Latin name was later borrowed into Slavic, becoming Kranjska , and into German as Chrainmark, Krain . The new inhabitants, to whom modern historiography frequently refers to as Alpine Slavs , were subjected to

2205-444: Was proclaimed a duchy by Rudolf IV , in 1364. Emperor Frederick III united Upper, Lower, and Central Carniola as Metlika and Pivka into one duchy. The union of the dismembered parts was completed by 1607. French revolutionary troops occupied Carniola in 1797, and from 1805 to 1806. Under the Treaty of Vienna, Carniola became part of the Illyrian provinces of France (1809–1814), with Ljubljana as its capital, and Carniola formed

2254-405: Was succeeded by Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, who married Agnes of Andechs , a relative of the patriarch, and he endowed the churches and monasteries, established the government mint at the town of Kostanjevica , and finally (in 1268) willed to Ottokar II , King of Bohemia , all his possessions and the government of Carinthia and Carniola. Ottokar was defeated by Rudolph I of Germany , and at

2303-405: Was the mayor of Ljubljana (nowadays the capital of Slovenia ), and greatly contributed to its rebuilding and modernisation after the 1895 earthquake . Ivan Hribar was born in the Carniolan town of Trzin in what was then the Austrian Empire (now in Slovenia ) and baptized Johann Hribar . He studied law at the University of Vienna and made a professional career as the representative of

2352-405: Was the residence of the imperial governor. The districts were: Kamnik, Kranj, Radovljica, the neighbourhood of Ljubljana, Logatec, Postojna, Litija, Krsko, Novo Mesto, Crnomelj, and Gotschee or Kocevje. There were 31 judicial circuits. The duchy was constituted by rescript of 20 December 1860, and by imperial patent of 26 February 1861, modified by legislation of 21 December 1867, granting power to

2401-408: Was the see of a prince-bishop , population, 40,000; it was known to the Romans as Aemona, and was destroyed by Obri in the sixth century. Carniola was divided into Upper Carniola (Slovenian name: Gorenjska), Lower Carniola (Slovenian: Dolenjska), and Inner Carniola (Slovenian: Notranjska). Politically the province was divided into eleven districts consisting of 359 municipalities; the provincial capital

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