103-608: The Sheboygan Indian Mound Park is a public park in Sheboygan , Wisconsin . Its main attraction is 18 Indian burial mounds distributed over 15 acres. The Kletzien Mound Group, located within the park, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. While the park is operated by the City of Sheboygan, it is surrounded by the Town of Wilson in a residential neighborhood. The park
206-537: A Koch Industries division). It was their base of operations for ships to load and unload coal for delivery along the peninsula. The Sheboygan River passes through the city, but dams in Sheboygan Falls prevent navigation upriver. Tall-masted boats are confined to the river downstream of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge. Commercial charter fishing boats dock near the mouth of the river. Two hospitals serve
309-487: A South Slavic ethnic group native to Slovenia , and adjacent regions in Italy , Austria and Hungary . Slovenes share a common ancestry, culture , history and speak Slovene as their native language. According to ethnic classification based on language , they are closely related to other South Slavic ethnic groups, as well as more distantly to West Slavs . Outside of Slovenia and Europe, Slovenes form diaspora groups in
412-633: A 1950s female group, as well as the thrash metal band Morbid Saint . Sheboygan County is well known for its bratwurst . The Sheboygan Jaycees sponsor Brat Days, an annual fund-raising festival that includes the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship. Notable parks in Sheboygan include Ellwood H. May Environmental Park , the Sheboygan Indian Mound Park , and Quarry Beach. Blue Harbor Resort
515-566: A brief ten-day war . In December 1991, a new constitution was adopted, followed in 1992 by the laws on denationalisation and privatization . The members of the European Union recognised Slovenia as an independent state on 15 January 1992, and the United Nations accepted it as a member on 22 May 1992. The disillusionment with domestic socio-economic elites at municipal and the State's level
618-511: A freeway. Other state highways in the city include Highway 42 , Highway 28 , which both run mostly along the former inner-city routing of U.S. 141. Secondary county highways include County Trunk Highway DL (CTH-DL) and the decommissioned CTH-LS to the north; CTH-J, CTH-O, CTH-PP, and CTH-EE to the west; and CTH-KK to the south. For addressing purposes, the city's north-south zero point is Pennsylvania Avenue (increasing from 500 past that line in both directions), while west addressing zeroes out at
721-459: A high school program, Rockets for Schools, where students build and launch 8-and-20-foot-tall (2.4 and 6.1 m) rockets. The city's daily newspaper is Gannett 's The Sheboygan Press , which has been published since 1907. The Sheboygan Sun also provides local news coverage through its website, while the Beacon is published by the same company as The Plymouth Review and Sheboygan Falls News ;
824-593: A minority and have enjoyed special rights following the Austrian State Treaty (Staatsvertrag) of 1955. Slovenes in the Austrian state of Styria (4,250) are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights, although the State Treaty of 27 July 1955 states otherwise. Many Carinthians remain uneasy about Slovene territorial claims, pointing to the fact that Yugoslav troops entered the state after each of
927-507: A policy of violent Germanisation . During the war, tens of thousands of Slovenes were resettled or chased away, imprisoned, or transported to labor , internment and extermination camps . Many were sent into exile to Nedić's Serbia and Croatia . The numbers of Slovenes drafted to the German military and paramilitary formations has been estimated at 150,000 men and women, almost a quarter of them died on various European battlefields, mostly on
1030-711: A rise in cultural pluralism. Numerous grass-roots political, artistic and intellectual movements emerged, including the Neue Slowenische Kunst , the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis , and the Nova revija intellectual circle. By the mid-1980s, a reformist fraction, led by Milan Kučan , took control of the Slovenian Communist Party, starting a gradual reform towards market socialism and controlled political pluralism . The first clear demand for Slovene independence
1133-428: A television station, WPVS-LP , which went off the air following the digital switchover and has since moved to Milwaukee; WHBL also attempted to establish a television sister station several times, without success. Interstate 43 is the primary north-south transportation route into Sheboygan, and forms the west boundary of the city. U.S. Route 141 was the primary north-south route into Sheboygan before Interstate 43
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#17328588967921236-660: A translator at 96.1 FM in Sheboygan); and active rock Sheboygan Falls-licensed WHBZ (106.5). Another CHR station, WCLB (950, translated on 107.3) also serves the city, along with the Sheboygan Area School District's WSHS (91.7), a member of the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network, and Plymouth's WGXI (1420, translated on 98.5), a classic country station. Various religious stations originating from Milwaukee and north of Green Bay and
1339-531: A translator for Kiel's WSTM (91.3), and NOAA Weather Radio station WWG91 broadcast from several towers in the city. WYVM acts as a full-power relay of Suring 's WRVN (102.7), which has a religious teaching format. The city is served by Spectrum and U-verse , with public-access television cable TV programming provided to both systems from "WSCS", and "SASD-TV" features school board meetings, with both channels featuring meetings and other content through their websites and YouTube . The city at one time had
1442-559: A unique situation. While Greece shared its experience of being trisected, Slovenia was the only country that experienced a further step—absorption and annexation into neighboring Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy , and Hungary. After Yugoslavia was invaded by Axis Powers on 6 April 1941, Germany and Hungary occupied northern Slovenia. Some villages in Lower Carniola were annexed by the Independent State of Croatia . The Nazis started
1545-866: A wave of political repressions took place in Slovenia and in Yugoslavia. Thousands of people were imprisoned for their political beliefs. Several tens of thousands of Slovenes left Slovenia immediately after the war in fear of Communist persecution. Many of them settled in Brazil and Argentina, which became the core of Slovenian anti-Communist emigration. More than 50,000 more followed in the next decade, frequently for economic reasons, as well as political ones. These later waves of Slovene immigrants mostly settled in Canada and in Australia, but also in other western countries. Additionally, due to
1648-538: Is a city in and the county seat of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin , United States. The population was 49,929 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Sheboygan metropolitan area , which has a population of 118,034. The city is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River , about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Milwaukee and 64 mi (103 km) south of Green Bay . Before its settlement by European Americans ,
1751-514: Is a contemporary art museum and performing arts complex located in Sheboygan. The center preserves and exhibits artist-built environments and contemporary art. In 2021, the center opened the Art Preserve , a satellite museum space dedicated to art environments. The city is also home to the historic Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts . Sheboygan was the home of The Chordettes ,
1854-637: Is a resort, water park and conference center in Sheboygan located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River . It opened in June 2004 after being built by Great Wolf Resorts . The city has a trail along the Highway 23 corridor leading to the Old Plank Road Trail to the west of Sheboygan that uses dedicated paths and bike lanes, along with a lakefront trail between Pennsylvania and Park avenues along Broughton Drive. Several bike routes are marked in
1957-764: Is estimated at 83,000 to 100,000, the Slovene minority in southern Austria at 24,855, in Croatia at 13,200, and in Hungary at 3,180. Significant Slovene expatriate communities live in the United States and Canada , in other European countries, in South America (mostly in Argentina and Brazil ), and in Australia and New Zealand . The largest population of Slovenes outside of Slovenia
2060-835: Is in Cleveland . In a 2013 Y-DNA study, 29-32% of 399–458 sampled Slovenian males belong to Y-DNA Haplogroup R1a , more frequent than in South Slavic peoples. The second largest Haplogroup was the Haplogroup R1b , which was at 26-28%, following was the Haplogroup I , with 30-31%. Due to the geographic position of Slovenia, the population is substantially diverse, sharing genes with Italic peoples , Germanic , Slavs and Hungarians . The Slovenian population displays close genetic affiliations with West Slavic , South Slavic , Austrians and Italic populations. The homogenous genetic strata of
2163-400: Is land and 0.19 square miles (0.49 km ) is water. It is located at latitude 43°45' north, longitude 87°44' west. Sheboygan has a warm-summer humid continental climate typical of Wisconsin. In spite of its position on Lake Michigan there are vast temperature differences between seasons, although it is somewhat moderated compared with areas farther inland. As of the census of 2020 ,
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#17328588967922266-649: Is protected under the Wisconsin Burial Sites Preservation Law. In 1967 Julilly House Kohler organized and led a campaign to preserve the historic Indian mounds which resulted in the site being designated as a county park. In 1968 Kohler was the registered agent for the incorporation of the Sheboygan Indian Mound Park Association, Inc. Sheboygan, Wisconsin Sheboygan ( / ʃ ɪ ˈ b ɔɪ ɡ ə n / )
2369-616: Is rejected by linguists on the basis that their dialect is by all standards a variant of Slovene. The first to define Slovenes as a separate branch of the Slavic people was Anton Tomaž Linhart in his work An Essay on the History of Carniola and Other Lands of the Austrian South Slavs , published in 1791. In it, Linhart also established the linguistic unity of the Slovene ethnic territory and set
2472-469: Is served by the county-owned non-commercial Sheboygan County Memorial Airport (KSBM) three miles northwest of the city. Sheboygan is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan . The city has no active port in the 21st century. Blue Harbor Resort is located on a peninsula between the lake and the Sheboygan River's last bend. This site was formerly used as the headquarters of the C. Reiss Coal Company (now
2575-541: Is the author of the first printed book in Slovene. He was a Slovenian Protestant Reformer of the Lutheran tradition. Most ethnic Slovenes are Roman Catholic by faith, with some historical Protestant minorities, especially Lutherans in Prekmurje . A sizable minority of Slovenes are non-religious or atheists, according to the published data from the 2002 Slovenian census, out of a total of 47,488 Muslims (who represent 2.4% of
2678-615: The 9th district ( Devin LeMahieu , R–Oostburg). Sheboygan is in the 6th congressional district of Wisconsin, which is represented by Republican congressperson Glenn Grothman . Sheboygan public schools are administered by the Sheboygan Area School District . High schools within the city include: The school district was the first in Wisconsin to operate an FM radio station, WSHS (91.7). Since 1996, Sheboygan has had
2781-613: The Chicago & North Western Railroad and the Milwaukee Road . These railroads' passenger services were abandoned during the mid-20th century but in 2008 the Wisconsin Department of Transportation proposed to reestablish passenger service to Milwaukee and Green Bay via Fond du Lac and the cities along Lake Winnebago's west shore, though political complications in the 2010s have since mothballed rail expansion in Wisconsin. Sheboygan
2884-522: The Cleveland metropolitan area in the United States; the high concentration of Slovenes in Cleveland specifically is attributed to the industrial opportunities at the time, as well as the existing workforce in the area being largely of Germanic and Slavic descent. Many Slovene expats during this period were sponsored to work in the United States by wealthy Slovenes or Slovene community organizations within
2987-784: The Eastern Front . Compared to the German policies in the northern Nazi-occupied area of Slovenia and the forced Fascist italianization in the former Austrian Littoral that was annexed after the First World War, the initial Italian policy in the central Slovenia was not as violent. Tens of thousands of Slovenes from German-occupied Lower Styria and Upper Carniola escaped to the Province of Ljubljana until June 1941. However, after resistance started in Province of Ljubljana , Italian violence against
3090-475: The Foibe massacres ; some 27,000 Istrian Italians fled Slovenian Istria from Communist persecution in the so-called Istrian–Dalmatian exodus . Members of the ethnic German minority either fled or were expelled from Slovenia. The overall number of World War II casualties in Slovenia is estimated at 97,000. The number includes about 14,000 people, who were killed or died for other war-related reasons immediately after
3193-520: The Lombards to Italy in 568. From 623 to 658 Slavic peoples between the upper Elbe River and the Karawanks mountain range united under the leadership of King Samo ( Slovene : Kralj Sámo ) in what became known as "Samo's Tribal Union" . The tribal union collapsed after Samo's death in 658, but a smaller Slavic tribal principality, Carantania ( Slovene : Karantanija ), remained, with its centre in
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3296-625: The Secret War in Laos (particularly from 1961–1975). The 2010 U.S. Census showed the number of Hmong citizens to be around 4,100 people, putting it fourth in Wisconsin for Hmong populations. Museums in Sheboygan include the Above & Beyond Children's Museum and Sheboygan County Historical Museum . The Sheboygan Hmong Memorial recognizes the service and sacrifice of the Hmong people of Laos who fought for
3399-658: The Slovene Littoral . The dispute over the port of Trieste however remained opened until 1954, until the short-lived Free Territory of Trieste was divided between Italy and Yugoslavia, thus giving Slovenia access to the sea. This division was ratified only in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo , which gave a final legal sanction to Slovenia's long disputed western border. From the 1950s, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia exercised relatively wide autonomy. Between 1945 and 1948,
3502-722: The Slovene March , and the Black Panther , a reconstruction of the supposed coat of arms of the Carolingian duchy of Carantania . After being used in the Flag of Slovenia , the graphical representation of Triglav has become recognised as a national symbol. Per the Constitution of Slovenia and the Slovenian act on national symbols, the flag of the Slovene nation is a white-blue-red flag without
3605-748: The Slovene National Benefit Society ; other Slovene immigrants went to southwestern Pennsylvania, southeastern Ohio and the state of West Virginia to work in the coal mines and lumber industry. Some Slovenes also went to the Pittsburgh or Youngstown, Ohio , areas, to work in the steel mills, as well as Minnesota 's Iron Range , to work in the iron mines and also to Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan for copper mining. Many also went west to Rock Springs in Wyoming to work in
3708-596: The Slovenian Covenant served as the political arm of the anti-Communist militia. The civil war was mostly restricted to the Province of Ljubljana , where more than 80% of the Slovene anti-partisan units were active. Between 1943 and 1945, smaller anti-Communist militia existed in parts of the Slovenian Littoral and in Upper Carniola , while they were virtually non-existent in the rest of the country. By 1945,
3811-569: The United States during the Secret War from 1961 to 1975, part of the Laotian Civil War . The monument is located within Deland Park along the Lake Michigan shoreline of Sheboygan, which contains one of the larger Hmong communities in the United States . In April 1894, the schooner Lottie Cooper wrecked just off Sheboygan in a gale . The wreckage was found buried in the harbor during
3914-449: The United States , Canada , Argentina and Brazil . Most Slovenes today live within the borders of the independent Slovenia (2,100,000 inhabitants, 83% Slovenes est. July 2020). In the Slovenian national census of 2002, 1,631,363 people ethnically declared themselves as Slovenes, while 1,723,434 people claimed Slovene as their native language. The autochthonous Slovene minority in Italy
4017-614: The 2018 autosomal analysis of Slovenian population, the Slovenes clustered with Hungarians and were close to Czechs . In the 6th century AD, Slavic people settled the region between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in two consecutive migration waves: the first wave came from the Moravian lands around 550, while the second wave, coming from the southeast, moved into the area after the migration of
4120-433: The First World War (1914–1918), the majority of Slovenes joined other South Slavs in the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs , followed by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , and finally the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . In the new system of banovinas (since 1929), Slovenes formed a majority in the Drava Banovina . In the ex- Austrian Empire area given to Italy in exchange for joining Great Britain in World War I ,
4223-417: The Greater Cleveland area, which greatly contributed to the large Slovene population in the city. In 1948, the Tito–Stalin split took place. In the first years following the split, the political repression worsened, as it extended to Communists accused of Stalinism . Hundreds of Slovenes were imprisoned in the concentration camp of Goli Otok , together with thousands of people of other nationalities. Among
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4326-453: The Hungarian part of the Austria-Hungary . This significantly affected the nation and led to further radicalisation of the Slovene national movement. In the 1890s, the first Slovene political parties were established. All of them were loyal to Austria, but they were also espousing a common South Slavic cause. Between 1880 and World War I , the largest numbers of Slovenes emigrated to America. Most of these went between 1905 and 1913, although
4429-405: The Italian and in the German occupation zones. The resistance, pluralistic at the beginning, was gradually taken over by the Communist Party , as in the rest of occupied Yugoslavia. Contrary to elsewhere in Yugoslavia, where on the freed territories the political life was organized by the military itself, the Slovene Partisans were subordinated to the civil political authority of the Front. In
4532-407: The Metro Center, more commonly known as the "Transfer Point" located in the downtown. Jefferson Lines and Indian Trails serve Sheboygan at the Metro Center, providing transportation to Milwaukee (and an Amtrak Thruway connection to the Milwaukee Intermodal Station ) and Green Bay . Historically the city was connected to Milwaukee, Chicago and Green Bay via the Milwaukee Interurban Lines ,
4635-407: The Romantic poet France Prešeren was influential in affirming the idea of Slovene linguistic and cultural individuality, refusing the idea of merging Slovenes into a wider Slavic nation. In the 1840s, the Slovene national movement developed far beyond literary expression. In 1848, the first Slovene national political programme, called United Slovenia ( Zedinjena Slovenija ), was written in
4738-489: The Sheboygan area was home to Native Americans , including members of the Potawatomi , Chippewa , Ottawa , Winnebago , and Menominee tribes. In the Menominee language, the place is known as Sāpīwǣhekaneh, "at a hearing distance in the woods". The Menominee ceded this land to the United States in the 1831 Treaty of Washington . Following the treaty, the land became available for sale to American settlers. Migrants from New York , Michigan , and New England were among
4841-436: The Slovene and Croatian teachers, poets, writers, artists and clergy were exiled to Sardinia and elsewhere to southern Italy . In 1926, claiming that it was restoring surnames to their original Italian form, the Italian government announced the Italianization of names and surnames not only of citizens of the Slovene minority, but also of Croatian and German . Some Slovenes willingly accepted Italianization in order to lose
4944-427: The Slovene civil population easily matched that of the Germans. The province saw the deportation of 25,000 people—which equated to 7.5% of the total population of the province—in one of the most drastic operations in Europe that filled up many Italian concentration camps , such as Rab concentration camp , in Gonars concentration camp , Monigo (Treviso), Renicci d'Anghiari, Chiesanuova (Padua) and elsewhere. To suppress
5047-417: The Slovene people. It hastened economic development and facilitated the appearance of a middle class. Under the reign of Maria Theresa and Emperor Joseph II (1765–1790) many reforms were undertaken in the administration and society, including land reforms, the modernization of the Church and compulsory primary education in Slovene (1774). The start of cultural-linguistic activities by Slovene intellectuals of
5150-423: The West Slavic populations and the Slovenian population suggest the existence of a common ancestral population in the central European region. The R-Z92 branch of R-Z280 which is significant among East Slavs is recorded as completely absent among Slovenes. In 2016 study, including 100 sampled Slovenians, 27.1% belong to R1b, of which 11.03% of R1b belongs to the R-P312 branch, 6% to the eastern and 4% to R-U106. In
5253-469: The Wisconsin side, a small town, population purhaps [ sic ] from 700 to 1000. This is a promising place. There are a great many best class of Germans settling around it. 'Tis all along this Lake so far quite an interesting country." Between 1840 and 1890, Protestant Dutch immigrants also settled in the area, as did Irish refugees fleeing the Great Famine . A neighborhood in northwestern Sheboygan (between Martin Avenue and Alexander Court)
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#17328588967925356-417: The advice and supervision of the main champion of the Yugoslav Communist Party, Slovene Edvard Kardelj . In 1973, the reformist trend was stopped by the conservative faction of the Slovenian Communist Party as part of a general reining in of liberal tendencies by the Yugoslav communist authorities. A period known as the "Years of Lead" (Slovene: svinčena leta ) followed. In the 1980s, Slovenia experienced
5459-464: The annual Dairyland Surf Classic from 1988 to 2012, the largest lake surfing competition in the world. Sheboygan's surfing culture was discussed in the 2003 surfing documentary, Step into Liquid . Sheboygan has a mayor–council form of government. The full-time mayor is elected by general election for a term of four years, with no term limits and to an officially non-partisan position. The Common Council consists of ten alderpersons representing
5562-518: The building's vintage three-story staircase its most prominent feature within a new atrium. The Sheboygan Police Department is the law enforcement agency in the city. Civil and criminal law cases are heard in the Sheboygan County Circuit Court, with municipal citations for Sheboygan and Kohler handled through the city's municipal court within the police headquarters building. The Sheboygan Fire Department provides fire suppression and emergency medical services, operating out of five fire stations throughout
5665-408: The city using existing streets and roads to demarcate separate bike lanes . Since 2018, Sheboygan has held a bronze-level bicycle-friendly community award from the League of American Bicyclists . A 2013 project created a north-south trail using the former Chicago & Northwestern Railroad right-of-way known as the "Shoreline 400" between Pennsylvania and North avenues, with future expansion to
5768-414: The city with advertising. Nielsen Audio places Sheboygan and Sheboygan County within one radio market, and several stations serve the area. Midwest Communications owns four stations within the county, including talk station WHBL (1330, with a translator station at 101.5 FM serving Sheboygan, Kohler and Sheboygan Falls); country station WBFM (93.7); CHR/Top 40 WXER (104.5 from Plymouth, with
5871-413: The city's ten aldermanic districts with a council president and vice-president presiding over them. A City Administrator oversees the day-to-day administration of the city and is appointed by the Common Council. Sheboygan's 1916-built City Hall was remodeled throughout 2018 and into 2019, being re-dedicated on September 3, 2019, with a new north frontage becoming the building's new main entrance and making
5974-405: The city. Sheboygan is represented in the Wisconsin State Assembly as part of both the 26th ( Terry Katsma , R– Oostburg ) and 27th ( Tyler Vorpagel , R– Plymouth ) districts, whose boundaries split the city along Geele Avenue from the west until North 18th Street, then Superior Avenue from North 18th Street to Lake Michigan. The city is also represented in the State Senate as part of
6077-442: The city. Aurora Medical Center - Sheboygan County opened in July 2022 under Aurora Health Care . St. Nicholas Hospital operates as part of the Hospital Sisters Health System . Sheboygan's sister cities are: Sheboygan has student exchanges with Esslingen and has had student exchanges with Tsubame in the past. Slovenians The Slovenes , also known as Slovenians ( Slovene : Slovenci [slɔˈʋéːntsi] ), are
6180-610: The coal mines that supported the Union Pacific Railway. There were more than 30,000 casualties among ethnic Slovenes during World War I because they were and still are inhabiting the territory where the Isonzo Front was fought. While the majority of them were drafted in the Austro-Hungarian Army , also Slovene civil inhabitants from the Gorizia and Gradisca region suffered in hundreds of thousands because they were resettled in refugee camps where, however, Slovene refugees were treated as state enemies by Italians and several thousands died of malnutrition in Italian refugee camps. After
6283-432: The coat-of-arms. The ratio of the width to height of the flag is one to two. Freising manuscripts are the first written words in Slovene. Four parchment leaves and a further quarter of a page have been preserved. They consist of three texts in the oldest Slovenian dialect. Linguistic, stylistic and contextual analyses reveal that these are church texts of careful composition and literary form. Primož Trubar (1508–1586)
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#17328588967926386-423: The construction of the Harbor Centre Marina and is now on display in Deland Park, on Sheboygan's lakefront. The free display is the only one of its kind on the Great Lakes . The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary , established in 2021 and the site of a large number of historically significant shipwrecks , lies in the waters of Lake Michigan off Sheboygan. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
6489-597: The context of the Spring of Nations movement within the Austrian Empire. It demanded a unification of all Slovene-speaking territories in an autonomous kingdom, named Slovenija , within the empire and an official status for Slovene. Although the project failed, it served as an important platform of Slovene political activity in the following decades, particularly in the 1860s and 1870s, when mass Slovene rallies, named tabori , were organised. The conflict between Slovene and German nationalists deepened. In 1866, some Slovenes were left to Italy, and in 1867 some remained in
6592-405: The end of the war, and the tiny Jewish community, which was nearly annihilated in the Holocaust . In addition, tens of thousands of Slovenes left their homeland soon after the end of the war. Most of them settled in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and the United States. Most of Carinthia remained part of Austria and around 42,000 Slovenes (per 1951 population census ) were recognized as
6695-411: The exact number is impossible to determine because Slovenes were often classified as Austrians , Italians , Croats , or under other, broader labels, such as Slavonic or Slavic . Those who settled in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania came to be called Windish , from the Austrian German term Windisch ' Wend '. The largest group of Slovenes in the United States eventually settled in Cleveland , Ohio, and
6798-434: The extreme eastern point of Superior Avenue at Lake Michigan (Sheboygan and Sheboygan County have no east addresses, and the little land existing northeast of that point stretches out the six '100 blocks' northward with xx50-xx90 numbers not otherwise used in most other addresses in Sheboygan). Shoreline Metro provides public bus transit throughout the city, as well as in Kohler and Sheboygan Falls . All routes depart from
6901-410: The first Socialist officeholder in America. In the early 20th century, many Orthodox Greeks , Catholic Slavs and Lithuanians immigrated to Sheboygan. In the late 20th century, Hmong refugees from Laos and Southeast Asia settled there. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 15.83 square miles (41.00 km ), of which, 15.64 square miles (40.51 km )
7004-429: The first new Americans to settle this area in the 1830s, though the French had been present in the region since the 17th century and had intermarried with local people. One 19th century settler remarked: "Nearly all the settlers were from the New England states and New York." Lumbering was the first major industry, as trees were harvested and shipped to eastern markets through the Great Lakes . Although Sheboygan
7107-437: The first two Social Democratic Party candidates to be elected to public office in the United States. Haack had originally been elected in 1897 as a member of the Populist Party but joined the Social Democrats after they organized locally. Haack served as alderman for sixteen years before moving to Milwaukee and being elected as a Socialist alderman there. At the 1932 Socialist Party convention, Haack received recognition as
7210-467: The forced Fascist Italianization of Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) was under no international restraint especially after Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922. Already during the period of Italian occupation, between the years 1918 and 1920, all Slovene cultural associations ( Sokol , "reading rooms" etc.) had been forbidden. Fascist Italy brought Italian teachers from southern Italy to Italianize ethnic Slovene and Croatian children, while
7313-403: The foundations of the Slovene ethnography . After the disintegration of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and the formation of independent Slovenia in the early 1990s motivated interest in a particularly Slovenian national identity. One reflection of this was an attempt at the rejection of a Slavic identity in favour of a " Venetic " one. The autochthonist " Venetic theory " was advanced in
7416-588: The help of local refugee agencies such as the Grace Episcopal Church and Trinity Lutheran Church. They were refugees from Laos. By 1990, the city had 2,000 residents of Hmong descent. By December 1999, there were around 5,000 Hmong and Hmong American residents in Sheboygan, 65% of whom were under the age of 18. In 2006, the Sheboygan Hmong Memorial was installed in the lakefront Deland Park to honor Hmong military and civilian contributions to
7519-650: The latter two have print editions mailed out weekly to all residents. The Gannett-owned Shoreline Chronicle contains Press "best-of" content, and is door-delivered and is also distributed with the Wednesday Press . The city is served by television and radio stations in Green Bay and Milwaukee. Nielsen 's television division places Sheboygan within the Milwaukee market, although Green Bay stations also report news, events, and weather warnings pertaining to Sheboygan and target
7622-558: The mid 1980s, but it never gained wide currency. The identification with Slavic roots remains strong in Slovenia and in 2004 even led to the establishment of the Forum of Slavic Cultures in Ljubljana. In the late 1980s, several symbols from the Middle Ages were revived as Slovenian national symbols. Among them, the most popular are the so-called Slovene Hat which featured in the coat of arms of
7725-514: The most important critical public intellectuals in this period were the sociologist Jože Pučnik , the poet Edvard Kocbek , and the literary historian Dušan Pirjevec . By the late 1960s, the reformist faction gained control of the Slovenian Communist Party , launching a series of reforms, aiming at the modernization of Slovenian society and economy. A new economic policy, known as workers self-management started to be implemented under
7828-651: The mounting resistance by the Slovene Partisans , Mario Roatta adopted draconian measures of summary executions , hostage-taking, reprisals, internments, and the burning of houses and whole villages. The "3C" pamphlet, tantamount to a declaration of war on civilians, involved him in Italian war crimes . In the summer of 1941, a resistance movement led by the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation , emerged in both
7931-591: The need for changes in the system that would limit political arbitrariness . Based on a German name for the Slovenes, Wenden or Winden , the first researchers of the origin of the Slovenes mistakenly believed that they were descendants of the Germanic tribe of the Vandals . Even today, some German speakers refer to the Slovenian minority in Carinthian Austria as Windische , as if a separate ethnicity. This claim
8034-409: The population was 49,929. The population density was 3,192.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,232.7/km ). There were 22,605 housing units at an average density of 1,445.4 per square mile (558.1/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 72.3% White , 11.1% Asian , 3.3% Black or African American , 0.6% Native American , 4.8% from other races , and 7.9% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population
8137-441: The population. There were 20,308 households, of which 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.4% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 39.8% were non-families. Of all households 33.4% were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
8240-497: The present-day region of Carinthia . Faced with the pressing danger of Avar tribes from the east, the Carantanians accepted a union with Bavaria in 745, and later in the 8th century recognized Frankish rule and accepted Christianity. The last Slavic state formation in the region, the principality of Prince Kocel , lost its independence in 874. Slovene ethnic territory subsequently shrank due to pressure from Germans from
8343-405: The quest for a political unification of all Slovenes became widespread. In the 1820s and 1840s, the interest in Slovene language and folklore grew enormously, with numerous philologists advancing the first steps towards standardization of the language. Illyrian movement , Pan-Slavic and Austro-Slavic ideas gained importance. However, the intellectual circle around the philologist Matija Čop and
8446-630: The re-establishment of Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, Slovenia became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , declared on 29 November 1943. A socialist state was established, but because of the Tito–Stalin split , economic and personal freedoms were broader than in the Eastern Bloc . In 1947, Italy ceded most of the Julian March to Yugoslavia, and Slovenia thus regained
8549-649: The removal of German Yugoslavs (which included in many cases ethnic Slovenes of partial German or Austrian heritage) from Yugoslavia under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito , many citizens were interned in concentration and work camps or forcibly expelled from the country in the years that followed WWII. As a result, a large number of German and Austrian Slovenes emigrated to Italy , Austria, Croatia, Hungary, and other European countries. Most who settled in Hungary during this period fled or were expelled to Germany and Austria in turn. Many expatriates ultimately settled in
8652-599: The second half of the 16th century, numerous books were printed in Slovene, including an integral translation of the Bible by Jurij Dalmatin . At the beginning of the 17th century, Protestantism was suppressed by the Habsburg-sponsored Counter Reformation , which introduced the new aesthetics of Baroque culture. The Enlightenment in the Habsburg monarchy brought significant social and cultural progress to
8755-625: The show trials that took place in Slovenia between 1945 and 1950, the most important were the Nagode trial against democratic intellectuals and left liberal activists (1946) and the Dachau trials (1947–1949), where former inmates of Nazi concentration camps were accused of collaboration with the Nazis. Many members of the Roman Catholic clergy suffered persecution. The case of bishop of Ljubljana Anton Vovk , who
8858-636: The south planned. A 2016 project added a trail along the Taylor Drive corridor, and improvements to the south to allow an eventual connection to the Ozaukee Interurban Trail are proposed for a future date. Sheboygan is a notable surfing destination, and has been called "The Malibu of the Midwest.” Sheboygan is considered to be one of the best places to surf in the Great Lakes region" Sheboygan hosted
8961-632: The status of being second-class citizens with no upward social mobility. By the mid-1930s, around 70,000 Slovenes had fled the region, mostly to Yugoslavia and South America . In the bilingual regions people of Carinthia decided in a 1920 referendum that most of Carinthia should remain in Austria . Slovene volunteers also participated in the Spanish Civil War and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War . During World War II, Slovenes were in
9064-663: The summer of 1942, a civil war between Slovenes broke out. The two fighting factions were the Slovenian Partisans and the Italian-sponsored anti-communist militia , later re-organized under Nazi command as the Slovene Home Guard . Small units of Slovenian Chetniks also existed in Lower Carniola and Styria . The Partisans were under the command of the Liberation Front (OF) and Tito 's Yugoslav resistance, while
9167-691: The surrounding area. The second-largest group settled in Chicago, principally on the Lower West Side . The American Slovenian Catholic Union (Ameriško slovenska katoliška enota) was founded as an organization to protect Slovene-American rights in Joliet, Illinois , 64 km (40 mi) southwest of Chicago , and in Cleveland. Today there are KSKJ branches all over the country offering life insurance and other services to Slovene-Americans. Freethinkers were centered around 18th and Racine Ave. in Chicago, where they founded
9270-531: The time brought about a national revival and the birth of the Slovene nation in the modern sense of the word. Before the Napoleonic Wars , some secular literature in Slovene emerged. During the same period, the first history of the Slovene Lands as an ethnic unity was written by Anton Tomaž Linhart , while Jernej Kopitar compiled the first comprehensive grammar of Slovene. Between 1809 and 1813, Slovenia
9373-574: The total number of Slovene anti-Communist militiamen reached 17,500. Immediately after the war, some 12,000 members of the Slovene Home Guard were killed in the Kočevski Rog massacres , while thousands of anti-communist civilians were killed in the first year after the war. In addition, hundreds of ethnic Italians from the Julian March were killed by the Yugoslav Army and partisan forces in
9476-461: The two World Wars. The former governor , Jörg Haider , regularly played the Slovene card when his popularity started to dwindle, and indeed relied on the strong anti-Slovene attitudes in many parts of the province for his power base. Yugoslavia acquired some territory from Italy after WWII but some 100,000 Slovenes remained behind the Italian border, notably around Trieste and Gorizia . Following
9579-535: The west and the arrival of Hungarians in the Pannonian plain ; it stabilized in its present form in the 15th century. The first mentions of a common Slovene ethnic identity, transcending regional boundaries, date from the 16th century. During this period, the first books in Slovene were written by the Protestant preacher Primož Trubar and his followers, establishing the base for the development of standard Slovene. In
9682-584: Was 12.5% Hispanic or Latino of any race and 68.9% Non-Hispanic White . As of the census of 2010, there were 49,288 people, 20,308 households, and 12,219 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,528.1 inhabitants per square mile (1,362.2/km ). There were 22,339 housing units at an average density of 1,599.1 per square mile (617.4/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 82.5% White , 1.8% African American , 0.5% Native American , 9.0% Asian , 3.6% from other races , and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.9% of
9785-403: Was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.06. The median age in the city was 36.2 years. 25.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.2% were from 25 to 44; 24.8% were from 45 to 64; and 13.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. In 1976, the first three Hmong families settled in Sheboygan with
9888-508: Was accompanied also by a fervent cultural and literary production with many tensions between the government and the dissident intellectuals. From the late 1950s onward, dissident circles started to be formed, mostly around short-lived independent journals, such as Revija 57 (1957–1958), which was the first independent intellectual journal in Yugoslavia and one of the first of this kind in the Communist bloc, and Perspektive (1960–1964). Among
9991-412: Was built, and its former route is a major north-south route through the center of the city that is referred to as Calumet Drive coming into the city from the north, and South Business Drive/Sauk Trail Road from the south; between Superior and Georgia Avenues, the highway is known as 14th Street. Four-lane Highway 23 is the primary west route into the city, and leads into the city up to North 25th Street as
10094-529: Was doused with gasoline and set on fire by Communist activists during a pastoral visit to Novo Mesto in January 1952, echoed in the western press. Between 1949 and 1953, a forced collectivization was attempted. After its failure, a policy of gradual liberalization followed. In the late 1950s, Slovenia was the first of the Yugoslav republics to begin a process of relative pluralization. A decade of industrialisation
10197-554: Was expressed at the 2012–2013 Slovenian protests on a wider scale than in the smaller 15 October 2011 protests – Slovenian disillusionment with the elites and financial institutions at the European and global level. In relation to the leading politicians' response to allegations made by official Commission for the Prevention of Corruption of the Republic of Slovenia , law experts expressed
10300-555: Was made in 1987 by a group of intellectuals in the 57th edition of the magazine Nova revija . Demands for democratisation and increase of Slovenian independence were sparked off. A mass democratic movement, coordinated by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights , pushed the Communists in the direction of democratic reforms. In 1991, Slovenia became an independent nation state after
10403-403: Was officially incorporated in 1846, much of the town had been platted in 1836, when property investors laid out more than one thousand lots. By 1849, a wave of liberal , middle-class immigration triggered by the revolutions of 1848 had made the community known for its German population. As Major William Williams wrote on June 26, 1849: "Arrived at Sheboigin [ sic ] on
10506-670: Was part of the Illyrian Provinces , an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire , with Ljubljana as the capital. Although the French rule was short-lived, it significantly contributed to the rise of national consciousness and political awareness of Slovenes. After the fall of Napoleon, all Slovene Lands were once again included in the Austrian Empire . Gradually, a distinct Slovene national consciousness developed, and
10609-452: Was settled by Slovenian immigrants and acquired the name Laibach ; it was also known as Vollrath's Division . According to a local Optimist member's account in 1963, in 1887 Sheboygan adopted a sundown town ordinance, banning African Americans from living there, though city leaders denied that any such ordinance was in effect. In the spring of 1898, Sheboygan elected Fred C. Haack and August L. Mohr as aldermen , making them
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