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The article examines the evolution of the Slovene minority in Carinthia (Austria) in dependence of political and socioeconomic developments and the methods used for determining the size of the minority. With statistic censuses which use the language of social intercourse as a criterion for measuring the size of the minority it is nowadays possible to determine only about one third of the minority population. Assimilation was most powerful in the stage of industrial society, when political pressures on the minority were also very strong. In tertiary post-industrial society the minority has better possibilities of preserving its national identity.
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Zupančič, J. Socialgeographic transformation and national identity — the case of the Slovene minority in Carinthia (Austria). GeoJournal 30, 231–234 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00806711
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