Historic milestones

Did you know that the oldest cave sites with traces of human activity in the Koroška region date as far back as 25 to 35 thousand years BC?

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The oldest cave sites with trails of human presence in Herkove Peči caves above Radlje and Špehovka cave in Huda Luknja.35.000 – 20.000 BC
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Prehistoric forts: Grajski Hrib above Stari Trg, Gradišče above Slovenj Gradec, Pigl above Javornik in Ravne.14th – 12th and 8th – 6th century BC
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Celtic tribes unite to form the Kingdom of Noricum (Noricum iron).3rd century BC
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Romans subdue the Celtic population of Noricum.16th century BC
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The Roman settlement Colatio (Stari Trg) and burial ground Zagrad near Prevalje next to the important Roman road and countryside property in Zg. Dovže, Zagrad and Muta.1st – 5th century
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Late Antique burial ground on Puščava at Grad above Stari Trg.End of 4th century – 5th century
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Samo’s Empire unites the Slavic tribes; it leads to the foundation of the Duchy of Carantania.626–658
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Early Antique burial ground on Puščava at Grad above Stari Trg.8th – 9th century
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Remains of an early Christian church with an Old Slavic burial ground in the Church of St. George at Legno.9th – 10th century
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Carantania (Koroška) acquires the formal status of a duchy.976
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First documented mention of Slovenj Gradec.1091
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First mention of Črna na Koroškem.1137
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The mitnica toll-house begins operating at the Sp. Muta area.1147
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First mention of Mežica.1154
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First documented mention of Radlje ob Dravi (villa Radela).1161
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Dravograd is mentioned as a market settlement with a castle, two mansions, Church of St. Vitus and a mitnica facility.1185
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Beginnings of timber rafting on the Drava River.13th century
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Henry II of Andechs, margrave of Istria, dies in his castle above Slovenj Gradec.1228
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First written mention of Vuzenica.1238
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First written mention of Guštanj, today Ravne na Koroškem.1248
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Siegfried of Mahrenberg and mother Gisela founded the Dominican monastery in Mahrenberg (Radlje). Berthold V. of Andechs, Patriarch of Aquileia, consecrates the Church of St. Elisabeth in Slovenj Gradec.1251
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First mention of Ribnica na Pohorju in land register documents.1266
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Ulrich III of Spanheim gives Slovenj Gradec the town rights.Before 1267
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The Radlje settlement is presented with market rights.1268
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The House of Habsburg takes permanent power (until 1918). First mention of Mislinja. First mention of the Church of Virgin Mary at Jezero (Prevalje historical centre).1335
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Oldest dating report on lead ore under Mount Peca in the notes of Carinthian Duke Ernest the Iron.1424
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Turks burn and pillage the Koroška region.2nd half of 15th century
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First revolt by Slovenian peasants in the Koroška region.1478
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The Hungarian army of Matthias Corvinus devastates the Slovenj Gradec and Guštanj castles.1489
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The Landstände of the Koroška region build strongholds against the Turks (turške šance) at the entrance to the Mežica Valley.1480 – 1500
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Peasant revolt of the Koroška region.1515
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The division of the vast Habsburg properties among the sons of Ferdinand I. This finally determines the historical borders of the so-called interior Austrian lands: Koroška, Štajerska and Kranjska.1564
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First mention of foundries in Muta.1573
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Consecration of the Church of St. Ursula on Uršlja Gora.1602
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Melhior Puc from the Lavant Valley inhabits Črna and begins mining iron ore in Javorje. The beginning of foundry in the Mežica Valley.1620
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Hans Sigmund Ottenfels receives approval to mine lead ore.1665
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Prevalje (Guštanj) parish priest Gašper Pilat founds a scholarship fund for secondary school students.1700
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The beginning of ironworks in Mislinja.1723
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The Leše Manuscript.1757 – 1761
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Counts of Thurn from Bleiburg build the foundry in Mušenik.1774
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Emperor Joseph II dissolves the monasteries (the Dominicans leave Mahrenberg).1782
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Napoleon annexes the Koroška region to the Illyrian Provinces.1809
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Blaž Mayer discovers the sites of brown coal in Leše.1818
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Brothers Rosthorn establish a zinc factory in Prevalje; a few years later the production is redirected to ironworks.1822
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Counts of Thurn focus on steel production in the Mežica Valley, which later becomes famous worldwide.1827
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Construction of a road through the Huda Luknja gorge connected the Koroška region with Central Slovenia.1829
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Discovery of the use of brown coals with puddling by August Rosthorn and Josefa Schlegl in the ironworks factory in Prevalje caused a complete turnover in the European ironworks industry.1840
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Active years of Anton Martin Slomšek in Vuzenica.1838 – 1844
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Construction of the Koroška part of the southern railway along the Drava Valley through Dravograd.1863
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Prevalje ironworks ceases activity; the entire production is transported to the upper Austrian Donawitz. Construction of the Mislinja railway between Dravograd and Velenje.1899
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The glažuta or glassworks facility in the Josipdol ceases activity; production is redirected to stonemasonry.1909
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Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Koroška region becomes a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 December.1918
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Battles for the Northern border.1918 – 1920
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Active years of the St. Mohor’s Society (Mohorjeva Družba) in Prevalje.1919 – 1927
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The plebiscite results divide the Koroška region to the Austrian and smaller Yugoslavian (Slovenian) part.10 October 1920
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Libeliče is joined to the mother country.1922
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The brown coal mines in Leše are closed down.1935
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The final battles of WWII in Europe take place from 8 to 15 May in Poljana near Prevalje.1945
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The secondary school in Ravne is founded.1949
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Guštanj is renamed Ravne na Koroškem and becomes a town.1952
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The UN General Secretary awards Slovenj Gradec with the title of Peace Messenger City.1989
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Severe confrontation at the Holmec border crossing and in Dravograd during the independence war.1991
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After 84 years, the two parts of the Koroška region are once again symbolically united after Slovenia joins the European Union2004
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Dravograd, Mežica and Prevalje are granted town charters.2005
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Slovenj Gradec is the partner city of the 2012 European Cultural Capital.2012

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