"Zdravljica" is a carmen figuratum poem by the 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet France Prešeren, inspired by the ideals of Liberté, égalité, fraternité. It was written in 1844 and published with some changes in 1848. Four years after it was written, Slovenes living within Habsburg Empire interpreted the poem in spirit of the 1848 March Revolution as political promotion of the idea of a united Slovenia. In it, the poet also declares his belief in a free-thinking Slovene and Slavic political awareness. In 1989, it was adopted as the regional anthem of Slovenia, becoming the national anthem upon independence in 1991.
Original manuscript of the poem, written in the Bohorič alphabet
A censored manuscript, ready to be published in the Poezije (Poems) collection in 1846. A modified version was published in full in 1848.
A memorial with "Žive naj vsi narodi" the first line of the Slovene national anthem by France Prešeren near the Schuman roundabout, Brussels.
France Prešeren was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.
Prešeren, 1850 oil portrait
Prešeren's birthplace in Vrba
Prešeren's muse, Julija Primic, in a portrait by Matevž Langus
O Vrba, the first of the Sonnets of Misfortune, published in 1834 in the 4th volume of Krajnska čbelica
