Maribor is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor and the economic, administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia. The city was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254.
About Maribor, Slovenia in brief
Maribor is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor and the economic, administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia. The city was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254. It was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 the city became part of independent Slovenia. In 2012 the city was selected the European Capital of Culture for 2012. The oldest known remnants of settlement in the MaribOr area date back to the 5th millennium BC, at the time of the Chalcolithic. In addition to its Slovene and German names, the city is also known as Marburgum in Latin and Marburgo in Italian. The area was settled by the Slavs by the 10th century AD and was later part of Samo’s Empire. To protect the castle from Hungarian raids, a castle was built on the Pyramid Hill for the first time in 843 AD. In 843 the area stood on the border between Carantania and Lower Pannonia, and was absorbed into the Frankish Empire. In the 9th century, the area was again part of the FrankISH Empire and stood on this time between Frankish and the Principality of Hungary.
During Roman times, the region was known as Noricum, right on theborder with Pannonian Italy. The town was known in Slovene as Marprk or Marprog. In modern times the town’s German name was Marburg an der Drau ; literally, ‘Marburg on the Drava’). The Slovene name Marib or is an artificial Slovenized creation, coined by Stanko Vraz in 1836. The name was accepted among Slovenes only 25 years later, when Lovro Toman published a song named Mar i bor, giving the name a Slovene compound Mar ‘to care’ + i ‘and’ + bor ‘to fight for’ In the 11th century BC, settlements were found in the area around Radvanje, Betnava, Bohova, and Hoče. A more intense period of settlement occurred in the 3rd millennium BC with the advent of the Bronze Age. The best-known of them was in today’s Borova Vas neighborhood, in the neighborhood of Mar Tibor. An important trade route was also established, connecting Celeva in one direction with Poetovio on the other. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the other area, Flavia Solva, was settled in the other direction and central Noria and Flavia on the Fall of the Slavic Empire, on the edge of the Adriatic Sea.
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