TONE CEVC, "POPULAR CULTURE IN THE SLOVENIAN ALPS"
This contribution provides a survey of the traditional rural economies, of settlement patterns and building types, of nutrition and clothing, and of sociability and popular art in the Slovenian alpine region. Special attention is devoted to rural architecture: herdsmen’s and shepherds’ huts, peasant dwellings and their farm buildings, shelters for woodsmen, charcoal burners and other occupational groups. Differences in settlement patterns (villages with 40 to 50 houses, hamlets with 10 to 12 houses and single farmsteads) can be interpreted especially according to age and elevation. The material culture is related by the author to social and economic aspects. Otherwise than in the dispersed settlements, the villages were characterized for example by the important role in public life played by groups of young men.
PETRA SVOLJSAK, "WORLD WAR I AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE SLOVENIAN ALPINE TERRITORY"
World War I had its most direct and brutal effect upon border regions. Thus battles between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the tributary zone of R. Isonzo from May to October 1917 not only cost 300,000 dead and countless wounded among the warring parties, but also caused colossal human and material loss among the native, mainly Slovenian, population. The article describes the run-up and the course of this military conflict, and then goes into its effects on the communication networks and the civilian population, and finally thematizes war-damages and frontier questions. The national borders were dislocated after World War I and, then again, after World War II. In 1975 negotiations between Italy and Yugoslavia resulted in a definite solution, formally confirmed after Slovenia acquired national sovereignity.
BOZO OTOREPEC, "TRIGLAV - A SYMBOLIC MOUNTAIN"
In the historical sources known and handed down, the word “triglav’’ (triple head) is first met with in 1320 A. D. As a designation of the highest mountain in the Julian Alps the expression is documented since 1612. As a Slovenian
