Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day 2023: Date, History, Facts about Slovenia

Slovenians residing in Prekmurje Mother Nation Day is annually observed on August 17, as part of the Mother Nation Day celebration. Prekmurje is a region of Slovenia located between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Raba Valley in the westernmost portion of Hungary. It retains distinctive linguistic, cultural, and religious characteristics that set it apart from other traditional Slovenian regions.

This is a public holiday but a working day in the Republic of Slovenia. On this day, Slovenes congregate in Prekmurje to commemorate their liberation from Hungarian rule and incorporation into their native Slovenia.

The background of Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day

Prekmurje has a turbulent past. It has been inhabited since the Stone Age and has been a part of the Roman Empire, the Italian Kingdom of Odoacer, the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the Lombard Kingdom, the Avar Kingdom, the Slavic State of Samo, the Frankish Empire, the Principality of Lower Pannonia, and the Kingdom of Arnulf’s Carantania. It was conquered by the Hungarians at the close of the 10th century and ruled by the mediaeval Kingdom of Hungary until the 16th century. Since then, the region has been governed primarily by the Habsburg Monarchy, with brief periods of Ottoman rule. Prekmurje was first incorporated into the Hungarian Democratic Republic and then the Hungarian Soviet Republic after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918. In 1919, it proclaimed independence as the ephemeral Republic of Prekmurje and was subsequently incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (also known as Yugoslavia). Prekmurje was momentarily occupied by the Axis powers from 1941 to 1945, and was subsequently incorporated into the new socialist Yugoslavia in 1945. Since 1991, it has been a part of independent Slovenia.

Slovenes only began celebrating Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day as a national holiday with due importance about 12 years ago. This day is commemorative of the events that lead to the incorporation of the Prekmurje nation into Slovenia. In 1919, more than 20,000 people gathered in Beltinci to support the reunification of Prekmurje with its mother nation and to witness the day when they became a part of a single nation.

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SLOVENIANS IN PREKMURJE INCORPORATED INTO THE MOTHER NATION DAY DATES

Year	Date	Day
2023	August 17	Thursday
2024	August 17	Saturday
2025	August 17	Sunday
2026	August 17	Monday
2027	August 17	Tuesday