So, they are too civilized (and not Ottomanized enough) to join the Balkan club? :D :thumb001:
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maybe :D
overall they are centraleuropean,even how they are towards religion is more western european than balkanian,,most Slovenians i know are atheist or very very secular/agnostic.That is not the case in Croatia(deeply catholic),or other balkan countries who are not "deeply religious" but rather religion=part of identity,nationalism
Slovenia is cosmopolitan in a good way.
There are other countries in the Balkan so you can apply your maybe to Bosnia because mentally Croatia may not be non-Balkan country for someone ( only partially geographically anyway ) but we are different than the most Balkan countries who are partially or not considered Balkan countries.
Southern parts of Slovenia belongs to Balkans observed from geographical aspect, but most not. Balkans is JUST geographical term, NOT cultural or racial like some individuals wish that it's. Term 'Balkans' is meaningless in any cultural or ethnic sense. I'll never consider and I never considered myself as Balkanite!
Concerning the architecure you are absolutly right.
But the Slovene language is definitly closer to Croatian or Serbian
than to Czech.
A slovenian speaker can hardly understand a full sentence of Czech or Slovakian. There are huge differences regarding the grammatical structure
and the vocabulary.