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Wikipedia does not support me on this, but I recall reading that the Slovene language is only classified as South Slavic due to its location, but it is actually closer to Czech. The few words I learned from phrasebooks reinforced that impression.
When I stopped in Ljubljana after visiting Croatia and Bosnia, I had a sense of returning to Central Europe from Elsewhere. The feel of crowds and parks and people were closer to Prague or Vienna than to Zagreb, Split, or Dubrovnik, much less Mostar. The abundance of subcultural types, kids with mohawks etc, reinforced that impression.
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My point is this, Slovenia has been together with Austria longer than it has with the rest of the southern Slavs. It stands to reason that culturally it cannot be similar to the other Balkan countries.
Ultimately we need a Slovenian to voice his opinion on this, not a half/Istrian like me.
Regretfully, that just proves that some Slovenians are more Balkan than they care to admit.
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I would say they are not part of the Balkans anymore than Slovakia, Hungary, or Romania is. They are in a transitional zone between the Romance(Mediterranean), Germanic, and Slavic worlds.
I think they fit more into the Central European zone, which excludes them from being in the North Balkans, which is in the periphery of the Central European zone.
I also think their mentality and culture tends to not reflect a Balkan like structure, which I find to be uniquely associated with peoples like the Serbs, Croats, Albanians, Ect. I think though it has been said that once you start moving East and South of Vienna the more Balkan like it becomes.
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To me.. Slovenia is a part of Central Europe. When I think of the Balkan I think of Croatia, Bosnian, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo and Greece.
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