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Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of coastline along the Adriatic Sea. It covers an area of 20,273 square kilometres and has a population of 2.05 million. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
Four major European geographic regions meet in Slovenia: the Alps, the Dinarides, the Pannonian Plain, and the Mediterranean Sea. Although on the shore of the Adriatic Sea, near the Mediterranean, most of Slovenia is in the Black Sea drainage basin. The Alps—including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke chain, as well as the Pohorje massif—dominate Northern Slovenia along its long border with Austria. The term "Karst topography" refers to that of southwestern Slovenia's Kras Plateau, a limestone region of underground rivers, gorges, and caves, between Ljubljana and the Mediterranean. However, the majority of Slovenian terrain is hilly or mountainous, with around 90% of the surface situated 200 m or more above sea level.
In the Northeast, the continental climate type with greatest difference between winter and summer temperatures. In the coastal region, there is sub-Mediterranean climate. The effect of the sea on the temperature rates is visible also up the Soča valley, while a severe Alpine climate is present in the high mountain regions. There is a strong interaction between these three climatic systems across most of the country.
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At the North-Western corner of the country lie are the Julian Alps with the picturesque Lake Bled and the Soča Valley, as well as the nation's highest peak, Mount Triglav in the middle of Triglav National Park. Other mountain ranges include Kamnik–Savinja Alps, Karavanke and Pohorje, popular with skiers and hikers. The hills around Slovenia's second-largest city, Maribor, are renowned for their wine-making. The northeastern part of the country is rich with spas, with Rogaška Slatina, Radenci, Čatež ob Savi, Dobrna, and Moravske Toplice growing in importance in the last two decades. Other popular tourist destinations include the historic cities of Ptuj and Škofja Loka, and several castles, such as the Predjama Castle . Important parts of tourism in Slovenia include congress and gambling tourism. Slovenia is the country with the highest percentage of casinos per 1,000 inhabitants in the European Union. Perla in Nova Gorica is the largest casino in the region. 
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Personalities
Ivan Cankar (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
Deluje: Knjiga za lahkomiselne ljudi ("A Book for Thoughtless People", 1901)
Tujci ("Strangers", 1901)
Za narodov blagor ("For the Wealth of the Nation", 1901)
Marijan Lipovšek ( 26 January 1910 – 25 December 1995) was a Slovenian composer, pianist, and teacher. A native of Ljubljana, he studied music in that city before heading to Prague in 1932; among his teachers were Pavel Šivic, Josef Suk, and Alois Hába.Stane Jagodič (born 15 June 1943) is a Slovenian artist and publicist. He was born in Celje and spent his youth in various places near Šmarje pri Jelšah. He works as a free-lance artist in various fields: painting, graphic arts, caricature, photo-montage, object-montage and assemblage.
In the early seventies he began working on X-ray collages (X-Ray Art), abstract painting, kinetic solutions, spraygrams and cybernetic constructivism. Ever since 1965 he used satirical drawing, photo-montage, three-dimensional objects – and all this by means of a poetic symbolism, which is expressed also in word form.
Krško
Krško is a town and municipality in eastern Slovenia. The town lies on the river Sava. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria (territory on the left bank of the river Sava) and Lower Carniola (territory on the right bank of the river Sava).
Slovenia's only nuclear power plant, the Krško Nuclear Power Plant lies to the southeast of the town.
The Krško parish church in the town centre is dedicated to John the Evangelist and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto. It is an originally late 15th century building that was largely rebuilt in 1899. A second parish is the Videm - Krško parish in the southern part of the town. Its parish church is dedicated to Saint Rupert. It was built in 1893 to 1897 in the Neo-Romanesque style. The church in the Stara vas area of the town, dedicated to Saint Michael belongs to this parish.
The Capuchin monastery with its church is in the centre of town on the right bank of the river Sava. It was built in 1640 to 1644 and was altered at various stages in its history. Krško Castle is a 12th-century castle ruin above the old center of the town. Further to the south is Šrajbarski Turn Castle, built in the 16th century.The natural sights in the municipality include the Kostanjevica Cave at the foot of the Gorjanci hills and the Krakovo forest, the only virgin forest in Slovenia where Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) grows and provides a habitat for several rare and endangered animal species.The participating school is Glasbena šola Krško.
