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Young Slovenes were a Slovene national liberal political movement in the 1860s and 1870s, inspired and named after the Young Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia. They were opposed to the national conservati
The cover of the first issue of the journal Ljubljanski zvon, established by Young Slovene followers.
Old Slovenes
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Old Slovenes is a term used for a national conservative political group in the Slovene Lands from the 1850s to the 1870s, which opposed the radical national liberal Young Slovenes. The main Old Sloven
Young Slovenes
…movement in the 1860s and 1870s, inspired and named after the Young Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia. They were opposed to the national conservative Old Slovenes. They entered a crisis in the 1880s, and disappeared from Slovene politics by the 1890s. They are considered the precursors of Liberalism in Slovenia…
Old Slovene leaders Janez Bleiweis and Lovro Toman in the late 1860s.