Former Yugoslavia

Slovenia was the most northern of the Slavic peoples who made up the nation of Yugoslavia created out of the demise of Austria shortly after WWI. Yugoslavia never contained all the Slavic-speaking Slovenes. Today, there are Slovene minorities in Italy, Hungary, and Austria. Albert Peterlin writes, “That about 3000 Slovenes live along the Slovene-Austrian border. Austria itself is a Bundesland (united states) of nine states. Slovenes live in the Austrian states of Carinthia/Kärten/Koroska, in Styria/Steiermark/Avstrijska Štajerska, and in Burgenland. The Slovenes of Vienna are immigrants from all Slovene areas. Another 2500 to 3000 live in the rest of Styria, mainly in Graz. The three main Slovene areas in Austria include: Radkersburg/Radgona with the villages of Dednitz/Dedonce, Laafeld/Potrna, Sicheldorf, Zelting, Goritz/Gorica; Leutschach/Lucane with Possnitz; and in the far west around Soboth with Laaken/Miaka. Also, there are a few families in Burgenland within the towns of Srdica, Hodos, and Tauka/Toka.”[i]

[i] Peterlin,Aibert, "Newsletter of Slovenian Genealogical Society," Rodna Gruda 6, (June 1992),26.