![]() ![]() In the 6th century, the ancestors of the Slovenes moved in. Its plastered brick houses, painted in different colours, were already connected to a drainage system. Emona housed 5,000–6,000 inhabitants and played an important role during numerous battles. In 452, it was destroyed by the Huns under Attila's orders, and later by the Ostrogoths and the Lombards. This entrenched fort was occupied by the Legio XV Apollinaris. Later, the area remained a transit point for numerous tribes and peoples, among them Illyrians, followed by a mixed nation of Celts and Illyrians called the Iapydes, and then in the 3rd century BC a Celtic tribe, the Taurisci.Īround 50 BC, the Romans built a military encampment that later became a permanent settlement called Iulia Aemona. Their archeological remains, nowadays in the Municipality of Ig, have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2011, in the common nomination of six Alpine states. To get around the marshes, they used dugout canoes made by cutting out the inside of tree trunks. These lake-dwelling people lived through hunting, fishing and primitive agriculture. In Baroque, it became part of the coat of arms and in the 19th and especially the 20th century, it outstripped the tower and other elements.Īround 2000 BC, the Ljubljana Marshes in the immediate vicinity of Ljubljana were settled by people living in pile dwellings. According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon was at first only a decoration above the city coat of arms. ![]() In the legend of Saint George, the dragon represents the old ancestral paganism overcome by Christianity. It is historically more believable that the dragon was adopted from Saint George, the patron of the Ljubljana Castle chapel built in the 15th century. This monster has become the dragon that today is present on the city coat of arms and flag. It is there that Jason struck down a monster. According to the celebrated Greek legend, the Argonauts on their return home after having taken the Golden Fleece found a large lake surrounded by a marsh between the present-day towns of Vrhnika and Ljubljana. There are several explanations on the origin of the Ljubljana Dragon. It symbolises power, courage, and greatness. It is depicted on the top of the tower of the Ljubljana Castle in the Ljubljana coat-of-arms and on the Ljubljanica-crossing Dragon Bridge (Zmajski most). The symbol of the city is the Ljubljana Dragon. The name Laibach, he claimed, was actually a hybrid of German and Slovene and derived from the same personal name. The linguist Silvo Torkar, who specialises in Slovene personal and place names, argued at the same place for the thesis that the name Ljubljana derives from Ljubija, the original name of the Ljubljanica River flowing through it, itself derived from the Old Slavic male name Ljubovid, "the one of a kind appearance". He supported the thesis that the name of the river derived from the name of the settlement. The origin from the Slavic -ljub lyoob 'to love, like' was in 2007 supported as the most probable by the linguist Tijmen Pronk, a specialist in comparative Indo-European linguistics and Slovene dialectology from the University of Leiden. For most scholars, the problem has been in how to connect the Slovene and the German names. In the Middle Ages, both the river and the town were also known by the German name Laibach, which was in official use until 1918. ![]() The origin of the city's name is unclear. Throughout its history, it has been influenced by its geographic position at the crossroads of the Slavic world with the Germanic and Latin cultures.įor centuries, Ljubljana was the capital of the historical region of Carniola. With approximately 272,000 inhabitants, it classifies as the only Slovenian large town. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia and its only centre of international importance. ![]()
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