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Matjaž Klemenčič and Vladimir Klemenčič, “The Role of the Border Region of the Northern Adriatic in Italy, Croatia and Slovenia in the Past and in the Process of European Integration,” Annales, Vol. 7, No. 10, 1997, pp. 285–294.

Andrew Ludanyi, ed., “Hungary and the Hungarian Minorities,” Special Topic Issue, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1996.

David Turnock, “Hungary,” in Francis W. Carter and David Turnock, eds, The States of Eastern Europe. Volume 1: North‐Eastern Europe (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 110–119; Pál Péter Tóth, “Hungarians in the Successor States: From World War I to World War II,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1996, pp. 425–437.

Matjaž Klemenčič and Mitja Žagar, Former Yugoslavia's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC–CLIO, 2004), pp. 217–218; Ivan Crkvenčić: “Emigration of Italians and Germans from Croatia during and Immediately after the Second World War,” Društvena istraživanja, Vol. 45, 2000, pp. 19–39.

Jernej Zupančič and Peter Repolusk, “Regionalism in Istria,” Region and Regionalism, Vol. 2, 1995, pp. 110–112.

Crkvenčić, “Emigration of Italians and Germans from Croatia,” p. 23.

Ibid., p. 24.

Milica Kacin‐Wohinz and Jože Pirjevec, Zgodovina Slovencev v Italiji 1866–2000 [History of the Slovenes in Italy 1866–2000] (Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2000).

VIII. Censimento della popolazione 21 aprile 1936. Vol II, Fasc. 24: Provincia del Friuli; Fasc. 31: Provincia del Carnero; Fasc. 32: Provincia di Gorizia, Fasc. 22: Provincia dell'Istria, Fasc. 34: Provincia di Trieste; Fasc. 35: Provincia di Zara (Rome: Istituto Centrale di Statistica del Regno d'Italia, 1936).

Crkvenčić, “Emigration of Italians and Germans from Croatia,” p. 18; Vladimir Klemenčič, “Jugoslawien—Zerfall und Bildung neuer Staaten,” Europa: neue Konturen eines Kontinents (Karl Ruppert, ed.) (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1993), p. 220.

Crkvenčić, “Emigration of Italians and Germans from Croatia,” p. 28.

M. Kuzle, “Porijeklo Talijana i njihovih naselja u Zapadnoj Slavoniji” [Ancestry of Italians and Their Settlements in Western Slavonia], Geografski horizont, Vol. 4, 1995, p. 15.

Crkvenčić, “Emigration of Italians and Germans from Croatia,” pp. 23–24.

Vladimir Klemenčič, “Prekmurje kot nerazvito obmejno območje v Sloveniji” [Prekmurje as Less Developed Frontier Region in Slovenia], Dela, Vol. 8, 1991, pp. 108–124.

Vladimir Klemenčič, “Sodobni regionalni problemi madžarske in italijanske narodnosti v procesih družbeno‐ekonomske preobrazbe” [Contemporary Regional Problems of Hungarian and Italian Nationality in Processes of Socioeconomic Development], Razprave in gradivo, Vol. 23, 1990, pp. 52–61; Kocsis and Kocsis‐Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities, pp. 187–193.

Popis prebivalstva, gospodinjstev in stanovanj, Slovenija, 31 marca 2002. Statistične informacije No. 93: Population (Ljubljana: Statistični urad Republike Slovenije, 2003), p. 23.

András Bertalan Székely, “The Hungarian Minority in Croatia and Slovenia,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1996, p. 483.

Kocsis and Kocsis‐Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities, p. 181.

Klemenčič and Žagar: Former Yugoslavia's Diverse Peoples, p. 309.

Republika Hrvatska: Popis stanovništva 2001. Stanovništvo prema narodnosti, po gradovima/općinama, ⟨http://www.dzs.hr/Popis%202001/Popis/H01_02_02/H01_02_02.html⟩, 16 November 2003.

Census of Refugees and Other War‐Affected Persons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UNHCR Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, 1996.

Kocsis and Kocsis‐Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities, p. 160.

Prvi rezultati Popisa stanovništva, domačinstava, stanova i poljoprivrednih gazdinstava 1991. godine. Statistički bilten broj 1934: Nacionalni sastav stsnovništva po opštinama (Belgrade: Savezni zavod za statistiku, 1992), str. 32–33; Popis stanovništva 2002: Stanovništvo po narodnosti (Belgrade: Savezni zavod za statistiku, 2004), ⟨http://www.kanjiza.co.yu/nepszamlalas2002/popisst2002.htm⟩, 20 January 2004.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Popis stanovništva 2002: Stanovništvo po narodnosti (Belgrade: Savezni zavod za statistiku, 2004), ⟨http://www.kanjiza.co.yu/nepszamlalas2002/popisst2002.htm), 20 January 2004.

András Agoston's letter to Lord Owen and Cyrus Vance, co‐chairmen of the Conference on Yugoslavia, 7 December 1992, quoted in Andrew Ludányi, “The Fate of Magyars in Yugoslavia: Genocide, Ethnocide or Ethnic Cleansing,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. 28, Nos 1–2, 2001, p. 134.

Sonja Novak‐Lukanović, “Some Yugoslav Experiences in Asserting Equality of the Nations and Nationalities in the Field of Education,” Razprave in gradivo, Vol. 18, 1986, p. 75.

The Constitution of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (Belgrade: Secretariat for Information, 1963); The Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Belgrade: Secretariat for Information of the Federal Executive Council, 1963).

The Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Belgrade: Jugoslovenska stvarnost and Jugoslovenski pregled, 1989).

Žagar Mitja, “Yugoslavia: What Went Wrong? Constitutional Aspects of the Yugoslav Crisis from the Perspective of Ethnic Conflict,” in Metta Spencer, ed., The Lessons of Yugoslavia (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2000), pp. 65–96; Lajos Arday, “Hungarians in Serb‐Yugoslav Vojvodina since 1944,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1996, p. 473.

Ustava Socialistične republike Slovenije (Ljubljana: Uradni list SRS, 1963).

Ustava Socialistične republike Slovenije (Ljubljana: Uradni list SR Slovenije, 1974).

Vladimir Klemenčič, “Državna meja no območju SR Slovenije in obmejna območja kot nov geografski fenomen” [State Border in the Region of SR Slovenia and Frontier Regions as a New Geographic Phenomena], Razprave in gradivo, No. 20, 1987, p. 58.

Ciril Ribičič, “Italijanska in madžarska narodna skupnost v Republiki Sloveniji: Ustavnopravni položaj. Posebna skrb Slovenije za obe manjšini že pred osamosvojitvijo” [Italian and Hungarian Nationality Group in Republic of Slovenia: Constitutional Legal Situation. Special Care of Slovenia for Both Minorities Already before Independence], Republika, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1997, p. 4.

Milan Gregorič, “Zakonska zaščita Slovencev v Italiji včeraj, danes in jutri” [Legal Protection of Slovenes in Italy Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow], Primorska srećanja, No. 243, 2001, pp. 454–459.

Lojze Ude, Franc Grad and Miro Cerar, Jr, Ustava Republike Slovenije: z uvodnim komentarjem dr. Lojzeta Udeta, dr. Franca Grada in Mira Cerarja ml. in stvarnim kazalom [Constitution of Republic of Slovenia: With Introduction …] (Ljubljana: Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 1992).

Miran Komac, “Varstvo narodnih skupnosti v Sloveniji” [Protection of Minorities in Slovenia], in Miroslav Polzer, Liana Kalcina, and Mitja Žagar, eds., Slovenija in evropski standardi varstva narodnih manjšin/Slovenia and European Standard for the Protection of National Minorities (Ljubljana: Informacijsko dokumentacijski center Sveta Evrope pri NUK, Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja, and Avstrijski inštitut za vzhodno in jugovzhodno Evrope, 2002), p. 17.

Pravilnik o določanju imen naselij in ulic ter o označevanju naselij, ulic in stavb [Regulations on Determining the Names of Settlements and Streets and the Marking of Settlements, Streets and Buildings], Uradni list SRS, No. 11/80, Ljubljana, 1980; Zakon o imenovanju in evidentiranju naselij, ulic in stavb [Law on the Naming and Registering of Settlements, Streets and Buildings], Uradni list SRS, No. 8/80, Ljubljana, 1980.

Miran Komac, Protection of Ethnic Communities in the Republic of Slovenia (Ljubljana: Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1999), p. 43.

Zakon o sodiščih [Law on Courts], Uradni list RS, No. 19/94, Ljubljana, 1994; Zakon o notariatu [Law on Notaryship], Uradni list RS, No. 13/94, 48/94, Ljubljana, 1994; Zakon o državnem tožilstvu [Law on the Office of Public Prosecutor], Uradni list RS, No. 63/94, Ljubljana, 1994.

Komac, Protection of Ethnic Communities, p. 45.

The international legal obligations of Slovenia towards the education of members of ethnic communities in their own language may be found in the following: (1) Special Statute of the Memorandum of Understanding, 1954, points b and c of Article 4; (2) Sporazum o zagotavljanju posebnih pravic slovenske manjšine v Republiki Madžarski in madžarske narodne skupnosti v Republiki Sloveniji [Convention on the Providing of Special Rights of the Slovenian Ethnic Minority in the Republic of Hungary and the Hungarian Ethnic Community in the Republic of Slovenia], Uradni list RS, No. 6/93, Ljubljana, 1993; (3) Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Article 12–14; European Charter for Regional or Minority Language, Article 8.

Komac: Protection of Ethnic Communities, pp. 46–47.

Komac, “Varstvo narodnih skupnosti v Sloveniji,” pp. 38–39.

Memorandum o soglasju o vzajemnem priznavanju slovenskih in italijanskih diplom in strokovnih naslovov [Memorandum on Agreement on Mutual Acceptance of Slovene and Italian Diplomas and Titles], Uradni list Republike Slovenije–Mednarodne pogodbe, No. 4/96, Ljubljana, 1996; Sporazum o sodelovanju na področju kulture, izobraževanja in znanosti med Republiko Slovenijo in republiko Madžarsko [Agreement on Cooperation between Republic of Slovenia and Republic of Hungary in the Fields of Culture, Education, and Science], Uradni list Republike Slovenije–Mednarodne pogodbe, No. 6/93, Ljubljana, 1993; Zakon o posebnih pravicah italijanske in madžarske narodne skupnosti na področju vzgoje in izobraževanja [Law on Special Rights of Italian and Hungarian Nationality Groups in Field of Education], Uradni list republike Slovenije, No. 35/2001, Ljubljana, 2001.

Zakon o javnih glasilih [Law on Mass Media], Uradni list RS, No. 18/94, Ljubljana, 1994.

Komac, Protection of Ethnic Communities, pp. 51–52.

Statut Javnega zavoda Radiotelevizije Slovenija [Statute of the Public Institution RTV Slovenia], Uradni list RS, No. 66/95, Ljubljana, 1995.

Komac, Protection of Ethnic Communities, pp. 52–53; “Varstvo narodnih skupnosti v Sloveniji,” p. 56.

Zakon o uresničevanju javnega interesa na področju kulture [Law on the Realization of Public Interest in the Area of Culture], Uradni list RS, No. 75/94, Ljubljana, 1994.

Komac, Protection of Ethnic Communities, pp. 53–54.

Zakon o grbu, zastavi in himni Republike Slovenije ter o slovenski narodni zastavi [Law on the Coat of Arms, Flag and Anthem of the Republic of Slovenia, and on the Slovenian National Flag], Uradni list RS, No. 67/94, Ljubljana, 1994.

See Article 64 of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia.

Zakon o evidenci volilne pravice [Law on the Records of Voting Rights], Uradni list RS, No. 46/92, Ljubljana, 1992; Zakon o volitvah v državni zbor [Law on Elections to the National Assembly], Uradni list RS, No. 44/92, Ljubljana, 1992.

Zakon o lokalni samoupravi [Law on Local Self‐government], Uradni list RS, No. 72/93, Ljubljana, 1993.

Zakon o samoupravih narodnih skupnostih [Law on Self‐Governing Ethnic Communities], Uradni list RS, No. 65/94, Ljubljana, 1993.

Ibid.

Zakon o ratifikaciji Evropske listine o regionalnih in manjšinskih jezikih [Law on Ratification of European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages], Uradni list Republike Slovenije–Mednarodne pogodbe, No. 17/2000, Ljubljana, 2000; Zakon o ratifikaciji Okvirne konvencije za varstvo narodnih manjšin [Law on Ratification of Provisional Convention for the Protection of National Minorities], Uradni list republike Slovenije—Mednarodne pogodbe, No. 4/98, Ljubljana, 1998.

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Kante, “Solidarni z manjšino,” p. 2.

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