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The English name Inner Carniola,[1][2][3] like the Slovene name Notranjska, is a translation of German Innerkrain, referring to the southwest part of Carniola. The name was created by analogy with Inner Austria (German: Innerösterreich), referring to the southwestern Habsburg hereditary lands.[4]
History
Inner Carniola or Postojna District, late 18th century map
The annexed western quarter of Slovene ethnic territory, and approximately 327,000 out of the total population of 1.3[5] million Slovenes,[6] were subjected to forced Fascist Italianization. On the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries.
Italy was given the districts of Vipava, Postojna, Ilirska Bistrica, Senožeče, and Idrija. The region was divided among the provinces of Gorizia, Trieste, and Fiume (Rijeka). With the rise of Fascism, it was subjected to a policy of violent Italianization until the downfall of Fascism in Italy. In 1947, it was transferred to Yugoslavia, which had occupied it since 1945.
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