Historical Dictionary of Slovenia (3rd edition)

Slovenia is unusual among European countries in never having been independent until 1991, so that its history, though often turbulent, has not been well known to the world in general: indeed, people in the West often confuse it with Slovakia (which flies an almost identical flag). Such general ignorance can be dispelled by reading this substantial contribution to the ever-expanding Rowman and Littlefield series of Historical Dictionaries. The present edition is the third, the second having appeared in 2007. It supplies 460 articles of between 50 and 2,500 words on the people, parties, movements, places, conflicts and treaties which...