The Slovenian National Defense Corps ( Slovene : Slovenski narodno varnostni zbor (abbreviated as SNVZ ); German : Slowenisches Nationales Schutzkorps ) was an anti- Slovene Partisans military organization that was active in the territory of the Operation Zone of the Adriatic Littoral in the German-occupied portion of Italy . Although led by Anton Kokalj , it was directly subordinated to German Nazi commander Odilo Globočnik . The organization was ideologically and organizationally linked to the Slovene Home Guard that was active in Province of Ljubljana .
10-620: The organization had problems recruiting from the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) that has had experienced Fascist Italianization already for almost two decades. So most of its officers instead came from Province of Ljubljana . At their peak, the organization had only about 2000 members. They provided Germans with lists of locations of Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation hideouts and suspicious individuals (described as "propagandist", "husband
20-556: Is a Communist"). At the time Boris Pahor , now an internationally best known Slovene writer from Trieste and concentration camp survivor, has been handed over and sent to the camps in Germany, another 600 persons were also handed over to the Germans by them. This Slovenia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Slovene minority in Italy (1920%E2%80%931947) The Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)
30-642: The Kingdom of Italy . Whereas only a few thousand Italians were left in the new South Slavic state, a population of half a million Slavs, both Slovenes and Croats, was subjected to forced Italianization until the fall of Fascism in Italy. After the Second World War , most of the region known as the Slovenian Littoral was transferred to Yugoslavia under the terms of the Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947 . At
40-455: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and to South America . Notable Slovenes affected by Italianization included the poet Srečko Kosovel and the writer Boris Pahor . Slovenes that emigrated included the writers Vladimir Bartol and Josip Ribičič , the legal theorist Boris Furlan , and the architect Viktor Sulčič . In order to fight the Fascist repression, the militant anti-fascist organization TIGR
50-570: The Italian nationalist milieus sought to make Trieste a città italianissima , committing a series of attacks led by Black Shirts against Slovene shops, libraries, lawyers' offices, and the central place of the rival community in the Trieste National Hall . Forced Italianization followed, and by the mid-1930s several thousand Slovenes, especially intellectuals from the Trieste region, emigrated to
60-468: The end of the 19th century, Trieste was the largest Slovene city, with more Slovene inhabitants than even Ljubljana . The Austrian census of 1911 recorded 56,845 Slovene speakers, compared to 41,727 in Ljubljana (part of the general Austrian census of 1910). They were the largest ethnic group in 9 of the 19 urban neighbourhoods of Trieste, and represented a majority in 7 of them. The Italian speakers, on
70-575: The other hand, made up 60.1% of the population in the city center, 38.1% in the suburbs, and 6.0% in the surroundings. They were the largest linguistic group in 10 of the 19 urban neighbourhoods, and represented the majority in 7 of them (including all 6 in the city centre). Of the 11 villages included within the city limits, the Slovene speakers had an overwhelming majority in 10, and the German speakers in one ( Miramare ). After being ceded from multiethnic Austria,
80-748: The trio, are located in Buenos Aires : the Abasto market , completed in 1934, and Boca Juniors stadium La Bombonera , completed in 1940. Other works by Viktor Sulcic include a collection of water colours depicting South American landscapes and poems written in Spanish. He died in 1973 in Buenos Aires . Viktor Sulcic was married to Anna Kiselicki, a piano teacher, native of Vranjevo near Novi Bečej in Serbia . They had two sons: Fedor and Hector Igor Sulcic. In Spanish : This article about an Argentine architect
90-797: Was formed in 1927. The estimated number of today's Slovene minority in Italy is 83,000 to 100,000. Viktor Sul%C4%8Di%C4%8D Viktor Sulčič (1895 - 1973), also known as Víctor (or Victorio ) Sulcic , was a Slovenian born Art Deco architect in Argentina . He was born in 1895 in Križ (in Italian Santa Croce ) near Trieste . He completing his studies of architecture in Florence and Bologna . Sulčič emigrated to Argentina in 1924. He joined two other architects there: José Luis Delpini and Raúl Bes . The two most famous buildings designed by
100-502: Was the indigenous Slovene population—approximately 327,000 out of a total population of 1.3 million ethnic Slovenes at the time —that was cut from the remaining three-quarters of the Slovene ethnic community after the First World War . According to the secret Treaty of London and the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, the former Austrian Littoral and western part of the former Inner Carniola of defeated Austria-Hungary were annexed to
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