Sloburg

Sloburg is the primary nation of Polandball and Mapping Slovenia.

Pre-Carniolan times (before 689)
Before the Duchy of Carniola was formed, territory of modern Sloburg was part of Roman empire. After Roman empire fell, Slavic people began to populate the land. In 689, the Duchy of Carniola was formed by Janez I (John the First of Carniola).

Duchy of Carniola (689 - 907)
Carniola was formed in 689. It was located in modern Slovenia, its capital was Kranj. The country had a lot of problems with Avars, but it was successfully defended. The second capital was Celovec (Klagenfurt). In 907 Sloburgians, a new dynasty, gained the throne of Carniola. The country was renamed to Sloburg the same year.

First Sloburgian kingdom (907 - 1364)
First Sloburgian king (Matej I - Matthew l) moved the capital to the town of Škofja Loka, where Sloburgian dynasty had its residence. Sloburgians were big competitors to the Habsburg dynasty. They had 3 wars with them. The last war (Slovene - Austrian war) was fought from 1358 to 1364. Sloburgians won the war. They succeded to gain all of Habsburg's lands. With that, Sloburg renamed to Sloburgian empire. Below you can see Sloburg castle in Škofja Loka.



Sloburgian empire (1364 - 1918)


The map shows all the Sloburg's dynasties greatest extent. The red one is Slovenian dynasty in 1678, the blue one is Spanish dynasty in 1633 and the green one is Armenian dynasty in 1501. Sloburgian dynasty has left a great mark in the history of Europe. Many cities that are located outside modern Sloburg have a big Slovene population (examples: Krakow, Zagreb, Prague...). Spanish Sloburgian dynasty also owned colonies in America and Africa. Unfortunately, it became extinct, when the last king Karel lV (Charles the fourth) died without male descendant. Armenian Sloburgian dynasty became extinct when Turks attacked Erebuni (Yerevan) in 1523 and whole royal family was killed. That is also one of the reasons for Turkey's bad relations with Sloburg. Slovene Sloburgian dynasty was important especially because of its defense against the Turks. Vienna became the capital of Sloburg right after Sloburgians won the last Austrian - Slovene war. Turks attacked Vienna three times, but they always failed. Last time when Turks went to Vienna was in 1675. Sloburg won and they gained a lot of land (Hungary, Croatia, Transylvania, Bosnia, Montenegro...). With that, Sloburg became the 2nd biggest country in Europe (behind Russia). Unfortunately, Sloburg lost a lot of land (Silesia) when the Prusso - Sloburgian war occurred. Sloburg didn't participate in partitions of Poland. When Napoleon became the Emperor of France in 1805, Sloburg sold modern Belgium to him and after that, Sloburg and France became allies. Napoleon unfortunately lost the Napoleonic wars and Sloburg needed to release Veneto and Lombardy and needed to give Montenegro and Bosnia to the Turks. A big reform in Sloburg happened in 1848, when king Vid the III gave autonomy to Croatia, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Romanian Transylvania and to the remaining German parts in Sloburg (Tyrol, Linz and Sudetenland). Sloburg remained neutral in WW1. The end of Sloburgian empire happened when the last Sloburgian emperor (and the first king of Second Sloburgian kingdom) John the XVII released all land that wasn't populated with Slovenes. 4th June 1918 is the official date of the end of Sloburgian empire.

Second Sloburgian kingdom (1918 - 1940)
After the fall of the empire, Sloburg remained on land populated mostly by Slovenes (Slovenia, Carinthia, Styria, Istria and northern Austria). The country felt the consequences of the economic crisis in 1929. Fortunately it was one of the first countries to recover their economy. Unfortunately Nazis and Italians started to conquer Sloburg in 1939 (right after the WW2 started). Sloburg was fully conquered in 1940. This was the end of Sloburgian dynasty, even though their descendants still live.

Occupied Sloburg (1940 - 1944)
Sloburg was split between Germany and Italy (north to Germany, south to Italy). After Italy capitulated, whole Sloburg became part of Germany. Around 1 million Slovenes died because of mass extermination. Sloburg was liberated by the allies in 1944. But after that, a civil war occured because some people wanted democracy and others wanted socialism.

Sloburgian civil war (1944 - 1945)
The war occured because people wanted different governments. Some wanted democracy, others wanted socialism. At the start of the war, socialists were winning, but after USA started to help democratic camp, they started to lose. Democratic forces won and Republic of Sloburg was formed. Below you can see democratic flag (left) and the socialist flag (right).

People's Republic of Sloburg (1945 - present)
After the end of WW2, Sloburg gained back its former German lands (Tyrol, upper Austria). The country joined NATO at the start of the Cold war. It was also one of the founding countries of European Coal and Steal community, the predecessor of the European Union. After the Cold war ended, Sloburg recognized all the countries that seceded from the USSR and Yugoslavia except Azerbaijan. The reason were Sloburg's relations with Armenia (read the Sloburgian empire section). Sloburg is (along with Armenia) the only country that recognizes Nagorno Karabakh Republic. This led to complete destruction of Sloburgian - Azeri relations. Sloburg also recognized the Armenian genocide, the second reason for bad relations with Turkey. In 1996, Croatia, which just seceded from Yugoslavia, tried to gain Istria. That led to Slovene - Croatian war, in which Sloburg won. It gained whole Dalmatia. Even today, Sloburgian - Croatian relations are bad. People's Republic of Sloburg remains a strong and solid state, which has an important position Europe.

Regions
1 Dunaj (Vienna)

2 Nova Avstrija (New Austria), capital: Novi Dunaj (Wiener Neustadt)

3 Solnograška regija (Salzburg), capital: Solnograd (Salzburg)

4 Štajerska (Styria), capital: Gradec (Graz)

5 Koroška (Carinthia), capital: Celovec (Klagenfurt)

6 Tirolska (Tyrol), capital: Inski Most (Innsbruck)

7 Kranjska (Carniola), capital: Ljubljana

8 Istra (Istria), capital: Trst (Trieste)

9 Dalmacija (Dalmatia), capital: Split

10 Mursko - Rabska regija (Muraland - Rabaland), capital: Murska Sobota

Government
Sloburg is an unitary constitutional parliamentary republic. President has a little bit more power in Sloburg than in most of other European republics. There are 150 seats in the building of the Parliament - 4 of them belong to representatives of bigger minorities - Croatians, Hungarians, Germans and Italians. When a party wins an election on 5 years, it can choose max. 2 parties to form the coalition. Below there is a list of biggest parties.

List of political parties (coalition)
Sloburgian Free Party is the most important party in the state right now. Its ideology is centre-left - the party is known for LGBT and abortion rights support, it is also known as the party that created the successful Sloburgian welfare system and affordable care + education. It owns 80 from 150 seats. SCS is state's second most important party right now. Its ideology is (as the name says) centrist. It is known to be the most conservative from the 3 most important parties. It owns 38 from 150 seats. SP is Sloburg's third most important party at the moment. Its ideology is moderate left-wing nationalism. The party is known for being the most authoritarian of "the big three" and its second most radical party in Sloburg. It owns 28 from 150 seats.
 * Sloburška Svobodna Stranka (Sloburgian Free Party/SSS)
 * Sloburška Centralna Stranka (Sloburgian Centrist Party/SCS)
 * Sloburški Preporod (Sloburgian Rebirth/SP)

List of political parties (opposition)
Sloburg's biggest opposition and biggest right-wing party is also known for being the most conservative party in Sloburg. It opposes to the welfare system - the reason why it is not so popular like "the big three". Sloburg's least popular party is the most radical party in the state. Its moderate right-wing nationalist ideology has become more radical since the European refugee crisis, but Sloburgians are aware that extremism can be a fatal stroke for world's peace. The party has never won the election and it was never invited to create coalition with other parties. Moderate centre-right wing party is known for being very pro-traditional and strictly capitalist. It has won the election in 1995 but its 5 years term was disastrous and people are very unsure of this party's actions.
 * Unija Sloburških Kristjanov (Union of Sloburgian Christians/USK)
 * Ljudsko Gibanje (People's movement/LG)
 * Sloburška Demokratska Unija (Sloburgian Democratic Union/SDU)

Military
Sloburg has three military branches: Land forces, Navy and Air forces. Sloburgian army currently consist 200.000 people, including women. There are 4.5 million people in Sloburg capable to serve in army. Sloburgian army has extremely good equipment (guns, tanks, ships), 3rd best in Europe. Sloburg has 8th strongest military in Europe and 16th in the world.

Demographics
Sloburg has population of 17 million people, 12th in Europe and 65th in the world.

Ethnic groups
In 2014, 9.031.890 people consider themselves Slovene. There's no person without nationality in Sloburg, because everybody needs to register his/her nationality. After Slovenes, largest ethnic group are Croatians (3.007.000 people). They mostly live in Dalmatia and big cities. Germans (2.556.000 people) live in Tyrol, western Austria and big cities. Most of them escaped in Germany after WW2. About 1 million Italians live in western Sloburg and some big cities on the coast. Hungarians (572.830 people) live in eastern Sloburg and Vienna. Others consider them as Serbs, Jews, Bosnians, Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Montenegrins, Greeks, Armenians, Romani people, Romanians... There are even 4000 Berbers living in Vienna. Below you can see the biggest ethnic groups map.

Sloburg in different languages
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 * Armenian: Սլոամրոց
 * Croatian: Slograd
 * Dutch: Slobboerg
 * Dummatch: Slwəburh
 * English: Sloburg
 * Estonian: Slokindluslinn
 * Finnish: Slopuri
 * French: Slobourg
 * German: Sloburg
 * Italian: Sloborgia
 * Hungarian: Szloburg
 * Lithuanian: Sliopilis
 * Polish: Sloburg
 * Russian: Сльоград
 * Serbian: Слоград
 * Slovak: Slohrad
 * Slovenian: Sloburg

Sloburg in ON languages

 * Estorian: Slokindluslenn
 * Kuyavian: Słobork
 * Reirish: Sloburgè
 * Slavonican: Slovinsko gradište
 * Switzlovenk: Slovenburg
 * Adianterrassian: Schlöbirgg
 * Hoflanian:Slovaburg
 * Inkamian: Šloburk

Religion

 * 47% of pupulation are Christians
 * 45% Atheist
 * 6% Muslim
 * 1% Jewish
 * 1% other

List of major cities

 * 1) Dunaj (Vienna), pop. 2.400.000 ★
 * 2) Ljubljana, pop. 1.700.000
 * 3) Trst (Trieste), pop. 1.000.000
 * 4) Gradec (Graz), pop. 500.000
 * 5) Solnograd (Salzburg), pop. 480.000
 * 6) Split, pop. 300.000
 * 7) Reka (Rijeka), pop. 250.000
 * 8) Maribor, pop. 240.000
 * 9) Kranj, pop. 200.000
 * 10) Inški Most (Innsbruck), pop. 150.000

Economy
WIP

Foreign relations
NOTE: these are special signed alliances.

Alliances (military)

 * NATO: 4 April 1949

Alliances (trade)

 * European Union: 18 April 1951 (joined in the time of ECSC)
 * United States: 4 April 1949
 * China: 29 November 1978
 * India: 1 July 1969
 * Russia: 13 December 1993
 * Australia: 4 March 1986
 * Serbia: 6 June 2006 (even though Sloburg recognizes Kosovo)
 * Brazil: 23 May 1989

Alliances (trade and military)

 * Armenia: 23 September 1991
 * Morocco: 8 March 1961
 * Israel: 2 May 1949

Countries with no relations

 * Azerbaijan: Sloburg is allied with Armenia, recognized Nagorno Karabakh and didn't recognize Azerbaijan.
 * Pakistan: Sloburg is allied with India and didn't recognize Azerbaijan.
 * Palestine: Sloburg doesn't recognize Palestine.
 * Sahrawi Arab Democratic Repulic: Sloburg does not recognize Western Sahara.
 * Saudi Arabia: Sloburgian president once said: Saudi Arabia needs to stop with anti - gay and anti - women laws. That led to complete destruction of relations with S.A.
 * Belarus: Sloburg doesn't approve Lukashenko's regime in Belarus.

ON alliances

 * Marmadania: 27 December 2015
 * HHK: 31 December 2015
 * Kuyavian Republic: 2 January 2016
 * Switzlovenkia: 6 January 2016
 * Athis: 4th April 2020