Murska Sobota

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Murska Sobota is a town and municipality in northeastern Slovenia, located near the river Mura (hence the name) in the region of Prekmurje, being its regional capital. The municipality has 22.000 inhabitants and borders Austria and Hungary.

Name

In Slovenian, the town is known as Murska Sobota, in German as Olsnitz, and in Hungarian as Muraszombat. Murska Sobota was a district (Hungarian: járás) of Vas in the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918. It was occupied by Hungary again from 1941 to 1945.

Features

It used to be Yugoslavia's northernmost town, and throughout history it has shifted across borders between Slovenes, Yugoslavs and Hungarians, the latter still representing a 3,000 people minority. The once significant Hungarian Jewish community of Murska Sobota was eliminated by Nazi Germany. In 1991, during Slovenia's Ten-Day War against the Yugoslav Federal Army, Murska Sobota was bombed by air, with no casualties or visible damage. Today, it is a quiet town that lives around the regional authorities' activities, light industry, commerce and spa tourism. In April 2006 the city became the see of the newly created Roman Catholic diocese of Murska Sobota, which is a suffragan to the archdiocese of Maribor.

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Coordinates:
Motto
none
Anthem
7th stanza of Zdravljica
"A Toast"


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Mura (German Mur) is a river in Central Europe, a tributary of the bigger Drava and subsequently the Danube.

The source of the river is in the Austrian national park Hohe Tauern. The source is 1,898 m above sea level.
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Prekmurje is the easternmost region of Slovenia. It borders Hungary to the north-east, Austria to the north-west, Croatia to the south and the Slovenian region of Styria to the south-west.
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Land der Berge, Land am Strome   (German)
Land of Mountains, Land on the River
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Historically Regnum Mariae Patronae Hungariae (Latin)
"Kingdom of Mary the Patroness of Hungary"
Anthem
Himnusz ("Isten, áldd meg a magyart")
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Slovenian/Slovene}}} 
Official status
Official language of: Slovenia, European Union
Regional or local official language in: Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated by: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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ISO 639-1: sl
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German language (Deutsch, ] ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
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Hungarian (magyar nyelv listen  ) is a Finno-Ugric language (more specifically an Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe.
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Hungarian (magyar nyelv listen  ) is a Finno-Ugric language (more specifically an Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe.
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Vas was the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the county was Szombathely.
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Kingdom of Hungary (short form: Hungary; Hungarian: Magyarország, long form Magyar Királyság) was a state in Central Europe that existed from 1000 to 1946 interrupted several times by short periods of anarchy or changes in form of government.
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Motto
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Historically Regnum Mariae Patronae Hungariae (Latin)
"Kingdom of Mary the Patroness of Hungary"
Anthem
Himnusz ("Isten, áldd meg a magyart")
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1938 1939 1940 - 1941 - 1942 1943 1944

Year 1941 (MCMXLI
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Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia, or literary The Land of South Slavs
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Slovenians or Slovenes (Slovenian Slovenci, dual Slovenca, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenke, dual Slovenki, singular Slovenka) are a South Slavic people primarily associated with Slovenia and the Slovenian language.
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Yugoslavs (Bosnian: Jugosloveni/Jugoslaveni; Macedonian, Serbian Cyrillic: Југословени; Latinic: Jugosloveni; Croatian: Jugoslaveni, Slovenian: Jugoslovani
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15.0 million
Regions with significant populations
 Hungary
 Romania
 United States
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Historical Jewish languages
Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, others
Liturgical languages:
Hebrew and Aramaic
Predominant spoken languages:
The vernacular language of the home nation in the Diaspora, significantly including English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and
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Ten-Day War (Slovenian: Desetdnevna vojna), sometimes called the Slovenian Independence War (Slovenian: Slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna
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diocese is an administrative territorial unit administrated by a bishop, hence also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area (as in United Methodism) or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop.
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A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop.

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In the Catholic Church this term is applied to all non-metropolitan bishops (that is, diocesan bishops of dioceses
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Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau, rarely Italian: Marburgo) is a city in Slovenia and the seat of the Maribor urban municipality.
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Ingolstadt

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Freistaat Bayern
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Downtown Bethlehem in 2007

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Location in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Motto(s): Virtue, Liberty and Independence

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This is a list of cities in Slovenia:
  • Ajdovščina
  • Celje
  • Domžale
  • Izola
  • Jesenice
  • Kamnik
  • Kobarid
  • Koper
  • Kranj
  • Krško
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  • Murska Sobota
  • Nova Gorica
  • Novo Mesto
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Motto
none
Anthem
7th stanza of Zdravljica
"A Toast"


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