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Newspaper bibliography of Vitanje

On the sixth page of the introduction to the book Kruh in politika, Zmago Šmitek wrote the following about the newspaper bibliography of Vitanje presented in this collection: We paid special attention to articles, discussions and books on Vitanje and its surroundings. Focusing on catalogues of the National and University Library and the University of Maribor Library, we compiled a bibliography of articles on Vitanje for the period of the last hundred years. Between 1975 and 1979, we also managed to check all issues of the Vitanje elementary school newsletter. Among the more important texts on Vitanje and its surroundings, we should mention the monograph by Angelos Baš Forestry and Sawmill Workers in the Southern Pohorje during the Era of Capitalist Exploitation of Forests (Maribor 1967). The entire publication Bread and Politics is available here.

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Peter Dajnko

Peter Dajnko (Črešnjevci pri Gornja Radgoni, 1787–1873, Velika Nedelja), priest, linguist and writer, is the most prolific Styrian writer of the Prešeren era. He made his mark in Slovenian literary history mainly with the Dajnčica script, which he presented in the Lehrbuch der Windischen Sprache (1824), in which he formulated norms and regulations for the Eastern Styrian literary language. He wrote many works in the new font, in which he presents himself as a translator of demanding biblical texts, as a writer of independent prose works, and as a systematic popular-professional teacher. His works preserve priceless records of Eastern Styrian Slovenian from the first half of the 19th century. They are important ethnological material about life in the village at that time and a source for researching the regional ritual language and Slovenian apiculture terminology.

The collection presents individual copies of Dajenko's works, as well as articles and some studies dealing with his life and work.

Prekmurian serial publications from 1875 to 1945

The first Prekmurian newspaper titled Prijátel: Znanost razserjüvajôcse mészecsne novine was published in Budapest by Imre Agustich from 1875 to 1879. Imre Agustich was born in Gornji Petrovci in Prekmurje. He worked as a stenographer in the Hungarian National Assembly, and his newspaper was written in the Prekmurian dialect using Hungarian alphabet. Later newspapers, periodicals, and calendars published in Prekmurje until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were written in the Prekmurian dialect using Hungarian alphabet. During the interwar period, Prekmurian periodical publications were printed in Gaj's Latin alphabet. The periodicals that emerged before the outbreak of the Second World War again used the Prekmurian dialect and Hungarian script. Regarding religious affiliation, there were both Evangelical and Catholic publications, while in terms of purpose or content, they encompassed humoristic or entertaining, literary, economic, political, cultural, educational, social, and Slovene-national serial publications. Among them were also some Hungarian-language newspapers. Regarding editions, 17 titles are fully digitized, with only the two oldest newspapers, Prijátel (Friend) and the emigrant Amerikanszki Szlovenczov glász (American Slovenian Voice), being incomplete.

Historical agricultural advices from Goriška region

Publications on how to best cultivate, grow, protect and process crops and care for livestock soon appeared in the Primorska region. This is probably due to the good agricultural location for winegrowing, fruit growing and agriculture and the founding of the Agricultural Society in Gorizia in 1765. Books and instructions soon followed: Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788) wrote on soil and fertilization in 1769; Valentin Stanič (1774-1847) taught adults about agriculture and fruit growing, Matija Vertovec (1784-1851) wrote on farming. An agricultural school and research station for sericulture was founded in Gorizia in 1869. Ivan Bolle (1850-1924) worked there first as an employee, than as a manager. Respectable scientists visited the station at the time, amongst them the Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist. Bolle studied silkworms and sericulture, but he extended his work on many other agricultural branches. Information also reached the public through several newspapers such as Umni gospodar, Gospodarski list (different editions), Primorski gospodar (later Gospodarski vestnik) and books.

Municipal bulletins of Spodnje Podravje

The area of Spodnje Podravje consists of three natural units: Haloze, plains along the Drava river and Slovenske gorice. It is recognizable by its agrarian orientation, especially by viticulture, which has an essential economic role and for which the entire area is known in Slovenia and abroad. The center of the region is Ptuj, not only because of its history, but because of today's administrative, educational and business functions.

Until the independence of Slovenia, Ptuj was the seat of one of the largest municipalities in Slovenia, but in 1995 a reform took place and new smaller municipalities began to emerge. Today, Spodnje Podravje consists of 19 municipalities: the municipalities of Cirkulane, Destrnik, Dornava, Gorišnica, Hajdina, Juršinci, Kidričevo, Majšperk, Markovci, Ormož, Podlehnik, the municipality of Ptuj, Sveti Andraž in Slovenske gorice, Središče ob Dravi, Sveti Tomaž, Trnovska vas, Videm, Zavrč and Žetale.

Ethnological Bibliography of Old Newspapers

The basis of this collection is the list of articles on catalog cards, prepared by the professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Janez Bogataj, PhD. In his foreword to this collection, he wrote, among other things, the following: The core of the material for the annual bibliographies was obtained by examining cards at the National and University Library. The undersigned was looking for publications not only under the ethnological (and ethnographic) UDC class 39, as many publications 'strayed' also into the historical, geographical, sociological, and other classes. The next step was to source out publications at ethnological institutions, such as the Department of Ethnology, the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum and ISN ZRC SAZU. He gathered a lot of material also from staying up to date with newer publications and writing them down on library cards. Working this way proved to be very advantageous. The Slovenian version of the whole text of Janez Bogataj, PhD on Slovenian ethnological bibliography is available here.

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The land between Pohorje and Boč

The area between Pohorje and Haloze, today the municipalities of Slovenska Bistrica, Makole, Oplotnica and Poljčane, represents a spatial geographical unit with a common past. It has been an important transitional territory, as testified by historical findings, written and other documents. The collection of the Josip Vošnjak Library in Slovenska Bistrica offers a large variety of the 19th and 20th century postcards, most of them have been digitised. Old postcards are an invaluable cultural heritage and an excellent source for researching and discovering our past. They have an important documentary value, as they give evidence of a place and the life of its people in the past. Old postcards can be used for studying changes in the cultural landscape, everyday life and political situation, history of castles, churches, buildings that have disappeared long ago, to observe the development of tourism …

The collection includes selected postcards from the Josip Vošnjak Library in Slovenska Bistrica, as well as some literature about the past, especially about the way of life and traditional customs in the area.

The Ptuj Newspapers , 1878-

Like in other Slovenian towns, the first newspapers that appeared in Ptuj were in German. In February 1878, Jakob Schön printed the first issue of the Pettauer Wochenblatt, but it was only published for less than a year. The Pettauer Zeitung was launched a decade later and soon became one of the most widely read newspapers in the Lower Styria. At first, it was a non-political newspaper, but later it became the newsletter of the Ptuj German community. At the turn of the century, the Štajerc newspaper (1900-1908) began to be published in Ptuj, which promoted ideas of the opponents of the Slovenian national movement in the Lower Styria. Between the two World Wars, the liberal Ptujski list (1919-1922) and Narodna sloga (1932-1933), the newsletter of radicals, were published in Ptuj. After the Second World War, Naše delo (Our Work), the predecessor of the Ptujski tednik (Ptuj Weekly) or Tednik (Weekly), began to be published. Since 2003, it has been published under the title Štajerski tednik (Styrian Weekly). Over the years, it has offered more independent, general information, educational and entertainment content, and has thus become a journal in which people have identified themselves, their friends and their hometown.