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Everything you need to become an expert on Ljubljana's sights.
Much of the interest in a city for the tourist is the influence of it's history, so here is a very brief history of the area.
The first written records of 1144 indicate that Ljubljana was called Laibach, but its history goes back at least to the Bronze Age, when the southern marshy area was settled by a people who built 'round' huts mounted on stilts. Later the Illyrians, then the Celts, around 400 BC, settled along the river Ljubljanica. Then the Romans came and established a military camp. The Roman influence still exists throughout Ljubljana. As with many of the cities in the region, Ljubljana (by this time known as Emona) was subject to attack, destruction and rule by surrounding tribes. But it was most influenced by the Habsburgs, who ruled the city almost continuously from 1335 to 1918. It was the Habsburgs who made Ljubljana into an important trading centre and Episcopal seat. Later it would become the centre of the Protestant Reformation in Slovenia.
The area has been subject to earthquakes and the destruction that they bring, but it has risen again each time. Ljubljana was able to expand when the town walls were pulled down, the southern marsh partially drained, and a canal constructed, that would control the flow of the Ljubljanica and prevent flooding. The development of the town was further stimulated by the coming of the railway.
After WWI, Slovenia joined the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, within Yugoslavia, in 1945, and remained the capital after Slovenia's independence in 1991.
It is the history and geography of a place that can make it a 'must see' for the tourist, and Ljubljana is no exception. Link to this page: http://ljubljana.allcapitals.com/See/
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