The border village that passed to Yugoslavia 100 years ago.
Today, 10 October, it has been 102 years since the referendum in Carinthia took place. But not only in Carinthia the population commemorates this event. For the small Slovenian border town of Libeliče – not far from Neuhaus – October 10 marks a particularly formative phase. In the 1920 referendum, the majority of 500 local residents voted to join the SHS state – but the city remained with Austria.
Vote for Yugoslavia
Protests and hard negotiations followed, which eventually led to the villagers having to go back to the polls in October 1922, two years after the referendum. And this vote after vote turned out to be in favor of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The eventful history of the place, which is only 200 meters from the Carinthian border crossing at Leifling, is documented there in a museum. Today, Libeliče, which broke away from Austria, maintains a special friendship with the Carinthians across the border and shows how cross-border cooperation can work.
Source: Krone
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