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	The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogtums Crain, Slava vojvodine Kranjske) is Janez Vajkard Valvasor's most important work on the natural history of his homeland, Slovenia.
		Concerned that foreigners did not know his region well enough, he undertook the presentation of Carniola in words and pictures, installing a copperplate workshop at his Bogenšperk Castle near Litija and publishing collections of his work.
		Written in German, The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola was published in 1689 in 15 volumes, lavishly illustrated with 528 copperplate engravings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Glory_of_the_Duchy_of_Carniola (160 words)

	Slovenia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Slavic Duchy of Carantania was formed in the 7th century.
		White Carniola (Bela krajina), otherwise part of Lower Carniola, is usually considered a separate region, as is Zasavje, which is otherwise a part of Upper and Lower Carniola and Styria.
		The central part of the country, namely Carniola (which existed as a part of Austria-Hungary until the early 20th century) was ethnographically and historically well described in the book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (German Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain, Slovenian Slava vojvodine Kranjske), published in 1689 by baron Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Slovenia (2182 words)

	Janez Vajkard Valvasor
		Valvasor was a pioneer of studying the karst phenomena.
		His single most important work remains the monumental The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain), published 1689 in 15 tomes, totalling 3532 pages and including 528 illustrations and 24 appendices, which provides a vivid description of the Slovene lands of the time.
		Valvasor died in September 1693 in Krško[?], and is buried in the family tomb near Izlake.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Johann_Weichert_Valvasor.html (302 words)

	Slovenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Slavic Duchy of Carantania, the first Slovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the 7th century.
		White Carniola (Bela krajina) and Zasavje are sometimes considered separate regions, otherwise they're part of Dolenjska.
		Part of the country, namely Carniola (which existed until the 19th century) was etnographically and historically well described in the book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain), published in 1689 by baron Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693).
	slovenia.iqnaut.net (1941 words)

	The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogtums Crain) is Janez Vajkard Valvasor 's most important work on the natural history of his homeland Slovenia.
		Concerned that foreigners did not know his well enough he undertook the presentation of Carniola in words and pictures installing a workshop at his Bogenšperk Castle near Litija publishing collections of his work.
		Written in German The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola was published in 1689 in 15 volumes lavishly illustrated with copperplate engravings.
	www.freeglossary.com /The_Glory_of_the_Duchy_of_Carniola (309 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Relevant non-Istrians
		As the castle first appears in historical records in 1533, it is assumed that it was built after the great earthquake that damaged several castles in the region in 1511, including the Lichtenberg tower castle, a medieval fortress, just down the hill from Bogenšperk, where the Wagen family had previously lived.
		He was a nobleman, a commander in the Austrian army, historian, polymath, ethnographer, and the first person to fully depict the ethnographical and geographical features of the Carniola region.
		In 1989, on the 300th anniversary of The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, a collection of costumes was reconstructed from the illustrations and descriptions in Valvasor`s book.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/illustri/non-istrian/valvasor/bogensperk.htm (1364 words)

	About The Glory of Carniola
		In 1689, a Slovenian nobleman and polymath named Janez Vajkard Valvasor published The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, an exhaustive study of life in 17th-century Carniola.
		The Glory was a monster: 15 volumes, 3,532 pages, 528 copperplate engravings and 24 appendices.
		Regardless of such trifles, The Glory remains an invaluable source of information on life in the 17th century, and on the history of the Slovenes in general.
	www.carniola.org /theglory/2004/03/about_the_glory.htm (341 words)

	Slovenia
		It is believed that the Slavic ancestors of the present-day Slovenians settled in the area in the 6th century.
		The Slavic Duchy of Carantania, the first proto-Slovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the 7th century.
		The Freising manuscripts, the earliest surviving written documents in a Slovenian dialect and the first ever Slavic dialect documents in Latin script, were written around 1000.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slovenia.html (2078 words)

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		He made a plan for a tunnel under the Ljubelj pass on the border between the provinces of Carniola and Carinthia, which is today the border between Slovenia and Austria.
		The culmination and at the same time the conclusion of Valvasor's scientific efforts represents his greatest and most important work, which he wrote in German: Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Crain (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola), which was published in Nuremberg in 1689.
		The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola is a harbinger of modern methods of research, and has been for 300 years an unrepeatable "encyclopedia" of Slovenia and a unique source of information which should not be overlooked by anyone who cares about our past or who studies any area of Slovenia's early history.
	www.posta.si /Namizje.aspx?tabid=388&artikelid=5548 (1260 words)

	Societas Heraldica Slovenica
		The castle was constructed sometime during the 10th - 11th centuries and was originally used as residence of the governors of the Duchy of Carniola and later, as a prison.
		It has, however, come to light that during the course of the numerous renovations experienced by the chapel over the centuries, errors have surfaced in the presentation of arms which include incorrect dates of the arms, incorrect inscriptions below the arms, and in some cases, incorrect arms.
		It would appear that a combination of errors found in the sources, including Valvasor's "Glory of the Duchy of Carniola" and errors introduced by the artists/painters of the arms.
	www.heraldica.si /resources/misc/ljubljanaCastle/castle.htm (656 words)

	Napoleon Bonaparte
		Unwilling to share the glory with Kellermann, Bonaparte replied by tendering his resignation, and the order was not insisted on.
		The Treaty of Presburg (26 December, 1805) united Dalmatia to the French Empire and the territory of Venice to the Kingdom of Italy, made Bavaria and Wurtemberg vassal kingdoms of Napoleon, enlarged the margravate of Baden, and transformed it into a grand duchy, and reduced Austria to the valley of the Danube.
		A series of principalities and duchies, "great fiefs", created all over Europe for his marshals, augmented the might and prestige of the empire.
	www.napoleonbonaparte.org (7342 words)

	BLED
		In 1903, Bled received the Gold Medal at a large international exhibition of spas in Vienna, and in 1906, it was officially classified amongst the important tourist spots in Imperial Austria.
		The first visitors to Bled were pilgrims from Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, the Slovenian Littoral, Friuli and Austria who came to see the Church of the Assumption on the island.
		Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a local aristocrat and polymath from Carniola, wrote a book entitled "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola!" in 1689, in which among other things, he reported on the thermal springs at Bled.
	www.bled.si /en/default.asp?id=303 (778 words)

	Slovenia News
		The next important step was the work of historian and playwright Anton Tomaž Linhart, An Outline of the History of Carniola and Other Provinces of Southern Slavs in Austria (1789/1791), which gave the first clear definition of the Slovenian nation as a separate branch of the Slavic group of peoples.
		Polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor was a renowned aristocrat who spread the magnificence of his Duchy of Carniola (a large part of today's Slovenia) across Europe in his fundamental work, the four extensive volumes of Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Krain (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, 1689).
		The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola came out in the late 17th century, while the first emergence of beehive panels was not known until the mid 18th century.
	slonews.sta.si /index.php?id=1094&s=46 (1282 words)

	Slovenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is said that most was chopped down long ago to provide the wooden pylons on which the city of Venice now stands.
		The lime (linden) tree, also common in Slovenian forests, is a national symbol.
		The loir or fat dormouse is often found in the Slovenian beech forests.
	www.tapefailure.com /pipe/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia (2643 words)

	Remembering Janez Vajkard Valvasor - 08-04-2005 - Radio Prague
		Valvasor was a remarkable character, army commander, nobleman, member of the Royal Geographical Society in London, and publisher of the monumental work - the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.
		As he was aware that foreigners did not know his region well enough, he undertook the presentation of Carniola in words and pictures.
		His most important work was "the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola", a genuine encyclopaedia of natural science, Slovenian customs and folklore, history, and topography that covered a large part of present-day Slovenia.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/65242 (711 words)

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		The Postojna Cave - Slovenia's largest, most renowned and internationally acclaimed subterranean wonder - is a 20km network of shafts, galleries and chambers boasting a fantastic treasure of stalagmite and stalactite rock formations carved out by the waters of the Pivka river.
		The first vividly, fantastic descriptions of the cave were published in the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola in 1689 by the Slovene polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor.
		The cave was opened to public in 1819 and over the last 180 years 29 million visitors - driven by curiosity, a devotion to nature or the need for mystery and beauty - have admired its stalagmites and stalactites.
	www.posta.si /Namizje.aspx?tabid=442&artikelid=7602 (333 words)

	Giornale Nuovo: May 2006 Archives
		Janez Vaijkard Valvasor (1641-93), also known as Johann Weichard (or Wiechert, or Wieckart, or Weikhard) Valvasor, was a man of many accompishments: a soldier, and military commander who was also a scholar— an historian & historiographer; a geographer, ethnographer & cartographer; a natural scientist; and a collector, painter and publisher.
		He was born in what is now Ljubljana, Slovenia, then better-known as Laibach, the principal city in the Austrian-ruled Duchy of Carniola.
		During the 1670s, he developed ambitious plans to write and publish a variety of illustrated treatises on a range of subjects, and to this end he set up his own publishing concern at his home at Bogenšperk Castle.
	www.spamula.net /blog/2006/05 (1832 words)

	Slovenia Information Center - slovenia map
		During the 14th century, most slovenia road map of Slovenia's regions passed into ownership of the Habsburgs whose lands slovenia government later formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, and parts of the provinces of Istria, Carinthia and Styria.
		Part of the country, namely Carniola (which existed until the 19th century) was etnographically and historically well described in the book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain), published in 1689 by baron Janez Vajkard Valvasor slovenia hotels (1641-1693).
		Hunting these animals is a long tradition and is well described in the book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Slava Vojvodine Kranjske) slovenia guides (1689), written by Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693).
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Slovenia.html (2041 words)

	Theatrum vitae et mortis humanae
		He was driven by a noble curiosity and a feeling that he must put all his talents to the service of his country.
		He was a cosmopolitan and a patriot who could converse both with the greatest European scholars and the most simple of his fellow countrymen from Carniola.
		Valvasor was a keen natural scientist and on his travels across Europe and Carniola he associated with alchemists who performed various experiments.
	www.narmuz-lj.si /theatrum/eng/hall5.htm (662 words)

	Bled Slovenia History
		Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a local nobleman and polyhistor of Carniola, wrote his book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola in 1689, in which, among other things, he describes the thermal springs of Bled.
		Weidmann, the administrator of the castle, due to an influx of visitors in search of health remedies whose needs he had to cater for, sought to fill in the thermal springs, but was not allowed to.
		Between 1782 and 1787 he often suggested that the lake should be drained so that the clay from the lake bed could be used as a raw material for a brickworks, however, the Carniola Regional Assembly turned down Novak’s proposal.
	www.bled-slovenia.com /bled-slovenia-history.html (1498 words)

	Uniqueness in the heart of Europe - Glagolitic Scripts in Slovenian lands
		A very important document on this matter is the evidence of Valvasor, the 17th century polyhistorian of Carniola.
		In his book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola there is a lengthy description of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts, a very clear table of the three alphabets and examples of Slovenian words illustrating the letters.
		He reports that both are still used in many places in Carniola, despite Trubar’s translation of Gospels and other religious texts a hundred years earlier.
	www.thezaurus.com /sloveniana/glagolitic_script1.htm (417 words)

	Ljubljana - Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A great deal of the Museum's material is connected to the territory of Slovenia and its neighbouring countries.
		Among the most important originals kept in the Museum are the first edition of Janez Vajkard Valvasor's Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Crain (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola), the Münster edition of Ptolemy's Geography, and Janez Dizma Flojančič's map of Carniola from 1744.
		Part of the Museum is also a hall on the ground floor at No. 16 Gosposka ulica street, which is intended for visiting and museum-created exhibitions, work with school groups and a variety of other activities.
	www.ljubljana.si /en/ljubljana/points_of_interest/museums/38736/podrobno.html (187 words)

	Destinacija Postojna
		That those sections of the cave closer to the surface also received visitors in later periods is proved by the signatures from the Passage of Old Signatures, the oldest of which date back to the 13th century, although the largest number are from the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Among the famous visitors to publish descriptions of the cave was Johann Weichard Valvasor, who described it – with a good deal of baroque exaggeration – in The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola(1689).
		The first to describe the cave as he had really seen it was the 18th century scientist Balthasar Hacquet, in his work Oryctographia Carniolica(1778–1789).
	www.postojnska-jama.si /?cat=73&lang=en (200 words)

	Geographical museum
		A great deal of the material is connected to the Slovene territory and the neighboring countries.
		First edition of Valvasor's Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Crain (Glory of the Duchy of Carniola), Münster edition of Ptolemy's Geography, and Flojančič map of Carniola from 1744 are among the first to single out.
		Janez Dizma Florjančič (Joannes Disma Floriantschitsch de Grienfeld): Ducatus Carnioliae Tabula Chorographica, 1744 (A chorographical map of the Duchy of Carniola) with a view and plan of Ljubljana.
	www.zrc-sazu.si /gi/museum.htm (442 words)

	:: The Balkan Pages :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, Ljubljana became the seat of the Dravska banovina.
		From as early as the 9th century, the lands inhabited by Karantanians, later Slovenes, fell under non-Karantanian ruler, including partial but co-operative control by Bavarian dukes and by the Republic of Venice.
		The Slovenes living in the provinces of Carinthia, Carniola and Styria, lived under the rule of the Habsburg dynasty from the 14th century until 1918, with the exception of Napoleon's 4-year tutelage of parts of modern-day Slovenia and Croatia — the "Illyrian provinces".
	www.angelfire.com /blog2/balkanpages/slovenia.htm (1548 words)

	Bled (Municipality, Slovenia)
		The municipality of Bled (11,000 inhabitants) is located in the mountains of Carniola, on the eponymous lake.
		In 1689, Janez Valkard Valvasor described the thermal springs of Bled in his book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.
		The castle administrator Weidmann was upset by the increasing number of visitors in Bled and attempted to destroy and fill the springs, fortunately to no avail; one of his successors, Ignac Novak (1782-1787) proposed to dry out the lake in order to get more arable land and dig out clay for brickworks.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/si-003.html (1730 words)

	Slovene Contribution to World Civilisation
		J.V. Valvasor (1641-1693) the first really well known Slovene scientist, reveals in his famous work "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola" (1689) the fact that skis were already familiar to the Slovene people in his day.
		His book "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola", published in 1689 provided a vivid description of the Slovene lands of the time.
		In four thick and richly illustrated books he described nature and life in the greater part of Slovenia and neighbouring countries.
	www.uvi.gov.si /10years/contribution (810 words)

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