...Ljubljana. Agricultural products and raw materials are…

...Ljubljana.

Agricultural products and raw materials are exported over this trade route, and exotic goods are imported from the East.

By the end of the eighteenth century, Slovenian prosperity has yielded a self-reliant middle class that sends its sons to study in Vienna and Paris; they return steeped in the views of the Enlightenment and bent on rational examination of their own culture.

Slovenian intellectuals begin writing in Slovenian rather than German, and they introduce the idea of a Slovenian nation.

Between 1788 and 1791, Anton Linhart writes an antifeudal, anticlerical history of the Slovenes that depicts them for the first time as a single people.