Narodni svet in slovenska samoodločba leta 1918

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovene (Abstract in Slovene and English, Summary in English) Key words: National Council for Slovenia and Istria, Anton Korošec, National manifestation and self-determination of October 29, 1918 in Ljubljana, Slovenian military, National government of the State of SHS in Ljubljana Abstract: With the establishment of the National Council for Slovenia and Istria (National Council) on August 16 and 17, 1918 in Ljubljana, Slovenian national politics embarked on a path of separation from Austria. The National Council has gradually developed into an authority in Slovenian lands. Legitimate Austrian authority began to die out as a sovereign power, and the revolutionary Slovenian authority, exercised by the National Council and its subordinate bodies, was more and more effective every day. In Slovenian lands, state relations with Austria were broken at a major national event on October 29, 1918 at the Congress Square in Ljubljana. The event was attended by more than 30,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, some 200 Slovenian officers and soldiers, and all the leading Slovenian political representatives who were in Ljubljana at that time. In their speeches, they welcomed the separation of Slovenians from Austria and the emergence of an independent state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, who by then lived in the Habsburg Monarchy (SHS State), and soldiers broke the oath given to the Habsburg Ruler and declared loyalty to the SHS State. The military played a prominent role in establishing a new, Slovenian rule, and decisively contributed to the formation of the first Slovenian national government. On October 31, 1918, the National Council of SHS in Ljubljana was declared the supreme authority in the State of SHS by the National Council of SHS in Zagreb.