34 Facts About Ljubljana

Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century.

Ljubljana supported the thesis that the name of the river derived from that of the settlement.

Linguist Silvo Torkar, who specialises in Slovene personal and place names, argued that the name Ljubljana derives from Ljubija, the original name of the Ljubljanica River flowing through it, itself derived from the Old Slavic male name Ljubovid, "the one of a lovely appearance".

Around 2000 BC, the Ljubljana Marsh was settled by people living in pile dwellings.

The territory south of the Sava where Ljubljana developed, gradually became property of the Carinthian Dukes of the House of Sponheim.

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Ljubljana acquired the town privileges at some time between 1220 and 1243.

The Roman Rite Catholic Diocese of Ljubljana was established in 1461 and the Church of St Nicholas became the diocesan cathedral.

In 1929, Ljubljana became the capital of the Drava Banovina, a Yugoslav province.

Ljubljana is the capital of independent Slovenia, which joined the European Union in 2004.

Ljubljana has grown considerably in the past 40 years, mainly by merging with nearby settlements.

Main watercourses in Ljubljana are the Ljubljanica, the Sava, the Gradascica, the Mali Graben, the Iska and the Iscica rivers.

Two major ponds in Ljubljana are Koseze Pond in the Siska District and Tivoli Pond in the southern part of Tivoli City Park.

Ljubljana's climate is oceanic, bordering on a humid subtropical climate, with continental characteristics such as warm summers and moderately cold winters.

Central square in Ljubljana is Preseren Square home to the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation .

Ljubljana Castle is a medieval castle with Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance architectural elements, located on the summit of Castle Hill, which dominates the city centre.

In 2014, Ljubljana won the European Green Capital Award for 2016 for their environmental achievements.

The Ljubljana dialect has been used as a literary means in novels, such as in the novel Nekdo drug by Branko Gradisnik, or in poems, such as Pika Nogavicka by Andrej Rozman - Roza.

Ljubljana appears in the 2005 The Historian, written by Elisabeth Kostova, and is called by its Roman name .

Ljubljana is the setting of Paulo Coelho's 1998 novel Veronika Decides to Die.

The Ljubljana Festival is one of the two oldest festivals in former Yugoslavia .

The first purpose-built art gallery in Ljubljana was the Jakopic Pavilion, which was in the first half of the 20th century the central exhibition venue of Slovene artists.

Cinema in Ljubljana appeared for the first time at the turn of the 20th century, and quickly gained popularity among the residents.

The Slovene National Opera and Ballet Theatre resides in Ljubljana, presenting a wide variety of domestic and foreign, modern and classic, opera, ballet and concert works.

Theatre has a rich tradition in Ljubljana, starting with the 1867 first ever Slovene-language drama performance.

Since the 1930s when in Ljubljana was founded a Mary Wigman dance school, the first one for modern dance in Slovenia, the field has been intimately linked to the development in Europe and the United States.

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The first sport club in Ljubljana was the South Sokol Gymnastic Club, established in 1863 and succeeded in 1868 by the Ljubljana Sokol .

City of Ljubljana is governed by the City Municipality of Ljubljana, which is led by the city council.

Ljubljana retook the leadership of the city council on 11 April 2012.

In 1775, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa proclaimed elementary education obligatory and Ljubljana got its normal school, intended as a learning place for teachers.

Second largest university library in Ljubljana is the Central Technological Library, the national library and information hub for natural sciences and technology.

Ljubljana is located where Slovenia's two main freeways intersect, connecting the freeway route from east to west, in line with Pan-European Corridor V, and the freeway in the north–south direction, in line with Pan-European Corridor X The city is linked to the southwest by A1-E70 to the Italian cities of Trieste and Venice and the Croatian port of Rijeka.

Nevertheless, the situation has been steadily improving; in 2015, Ljubljana placed 13th in a ranking of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities.

Ljubljana has a rich history of discoveries in medicine and innovations in medical technology.

Since 1986, Ljubljana is part of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network.