The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenija in Slovenian) is located in the northwestern corner of the former Yugoslav federation, bordering on Austria to the north and Italy to the west. The country has only a short coastline on the Adriatic Sea south of Trieste, Italy. The chief port is Koper, on the Gulf of Trieste just south of the Italian border. This coast has a complicated history. It was part of the Austrian Empire until that empire was dissolved at the end of World War I in 1918. It was then annexed by Italy, which remained in control to the end of World War II in 1945. For the next nine years it was part of the Free Territory of Trieste, a UN-administered area. In 1954 voters in the area chose Yugoslavia over Italy, so it became part of the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia. Slovenia was the first Yugoslav republic to achieve independence, in 1991, and the first to join the European Union, in 2004. The coastal region of Slovenia is officially bilingual, with both Italian and Slovenian being spoken. Italian place names are shown in brackets {}. The words for a lighthouse are svetilnik in Slovenian and faro in Italian. In Slovenian rt is the word for a cape or headland. hrid is a rock, an luka is a harbor. Aids to navigation in Slovenia are maintained by the Slovenian Maritime Administration. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. PS numbers, where known, are from the Slovenian light list Popis objektov za navigacijo; these are the same as the numbers from the Yugoslav light list Popis Svjetala i Signala za Maglu now maintained by Croatia. Admiralty numbers are from volume E of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.
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Posted August 21, 2006. Checked and revised February 6, 2025. Lighthouses: 5. Site copyright 2025 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.