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It's Prekmurje (prek = over, Mura = river, so it's "over Mura" region, or districtus transmuranus, as it was known in middle ages), Primorje/Primorska is a region bordering with Italy, also known as Slovene Littoral.Didn't Kossuth say Primurje is Hungarian?
He cals it "muravidek" as Hungarians call it now, but historicaly they called it "vendividek" and they considered Slovenians as "Vends", a seperate ethnicity from the rest of Slovenia which has it's place in Hungarian state. Many Lutheran Slovenians supported this as they were mostly pro-Hungarian through history for several reasons. One is that they considered Habsburg monarchy as 'anti-protestant' and thus sided with Kossuth against Habsburgs (while Catholic Slovenians in Prekmurje supported Habsburgs), also they were minority and more connected with Hungarian Lutherans. They were first class citizens while Catholic Slovenians had a second class citizen status. It should also be noted that Hungary in 19th century and in the beggining of 20th century was some kind of protestant oligarchy and Hungarian nationalism was in favour of Lutherans (though Catholics also supported it). As far as I know Lutherans in Slovakia were also less patriotic...
Anyway, Prekmurje Slovenians have a distinct language from other Slovenians, though it is now considered only as a dialect. We have Hungarian accent and few Hungarian words, but the main difference is that Prekmurian language has it's origins in Pannonian Slovenian, simmilar to Old Church Slavonic - we have been separeted from other Slovenians even before Hungarians came, since Prekmurje was part of Lower Pannonia and not Carantania (the two states were briefly united under Carolingian rule).
This language difference between us and other Slovenians was the main argument for Prekmurje being Hungarian and not Slovenian, needless to say it didn't have much weight and it was only accepted by supporters of Hungarian chauvinism. Hungarians were always minority in Prekmurje.
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