Border between Croatia and Slovenia
The border between Croatia and Slovenia separates the territory of Croatia from that of Slovenia . Its length is given as 670 km. The border largely corresponds to the border between the cisleithan and transleithan halves of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy that existed until the end of the First World War .
Borderline
The border connects to the Croatian-Hungarian border in the area where the Ledava flows into the Mur and then roughly follows the course of the Mur to the Slovenian village of Šafarsko (Hungarian: Ligetfalva ). However, the exact course of the border in this section is controversial (see border between Croatia and Hungary ). It separates there from the Mur and runs along the edge of the Mursko polje . Southeast of Ljutomer (German: Luttenberg ) it takes a south-southeastern direction and reaches the Drau at Središče ob Dravi (German: Polstrau ) . Cross here from Pragersko (German: Pragerhof ) after the Croatian Čakovec (German: Czakathurn ) leading railway and of Ptuj (German: Pettau ) leading towards Čakovec Slovenian road 2. it follows to the course of the Drave about upwards over Ormož (German : Friedau ) to the Croatian Dubrava Križovljanska , where there is a crossing of the Croatian Državna cesta D2 , which continues in Slovenia as road 228 to Ptuj. The border leaves the Drava here and follows the historical border line between Styria (Štajersko) and the former Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia , a former tributary of the Kingdom of Hungary , where it reaches the Donji Macelj border crossing on the Croatian Autocesta A4 motorway , which runs here in the Slovenian Avtocesta A4 (both part of the European route 59 ) passes. To the west, the border runs over the Macelj mountain range (718 m) and then follows the Sotla (Sattelbach), the historic eastern border of Styria, to its confluence with the Save (in the southernmost section with minor deviations), including the railway line from Krsko ( German: Gurkfeld ) crossing to Zagreb . It follows the Sava for around 2 km to the southeast, then leaves it to the southwest and follows the Bregana . In the Sava valley, it crosses the former Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo (now Avtocesta A2 in Slovenia , Autocesta A3 in Croatia , also European route 70 ). The border runs further to the west and then largely at the height of the Uskoken Mountains (Croatian Žumberak, Slovenian Gorjanci), but leaves it north of the Novo mesto (German: Rudolfswerth ) - Metlika road in the Bela krajina , with the borderline north of Metlika extremely complicated is (see map on the right). Via the Kamenica brook, the border then reaches the Kupa river (Slovenian: Kolpa), which it follows for around 100 km upstream and which forms the historical border between Carniola and Croatia (and thus part of the border of the Holy Roman Empire ). At Jurovski Brod, the Croatian Državna cesta D6 coming from Karlovac crosses the Kupa and thus the border. Its course leaves the predominantly north-south direction across the width of Karlovac and follows the course of the river in an east-west direction. At Vinica (in Slovenia) there is a small border crossing, from which it is not far to the Croatian Autocesta A1 . The next border crossing is in the west on the road between the Slovenian Kočevje , the center of the former German- speaking island of Gottschee , and the Croatian Delnice . The border follows the Kupa further upwards in a north-westerly direction to the confluence of the Čabranka , which it continues along to the north-west, and has a bulge to the north-east east of Babno Pole (with border crossing). There it turns to the southwest and leads through almost uninhabited area a few kilometers east of the Krainer Schneeberg (Slovenian: Snežnik, Italian: Monte Nevoso). The Croatian Autocesta A7 , that of Rijeka , runs between the Croatian Rupa and the Slovenian Jelšanecomes to the border, it will be continued on the Slovenian side by road no. 6 to Ljubljana ; on the Croatian side, it is part of European route 65 . The railroad also crosses the border here. A little further to the west, the Slovenian road no. 7 coming from Trieste crosses the border that forms the extension of the E65; in Croatia it is connected to the A7 motorway via the Državna cesta D8 . The border continues on the northern edge of the Ćićarija ( Tschitschenboden ) through the Karst and turns south at the Podgorski kras. The Divača – Pula railway crosses the border between Rakitovec (Slovenia) and the Croatian Buzet (Italian: Pinguente ), which leads to the Istrian peninsula . From there the border runs generally to the west, in the westernmost section along the Dragonja and merges into the (controversial) Croatian-Slovenian maritime border at the Gulf of Piran .
history
Large parts of the border (from the Drava to the area south of Ilirska Bistrica ) coincide with the old border between Cisleithanien and Transleithanien, which dates back to the early modern period. Croatia and Slovenia came to what would become the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the First World War , but Italy received the former coastal land and Istria. During the Second World War , Slovenia was divided between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Italy after its annexation in 1941 . The demarcation between the then Yugoslav republics took place at the end of the Second World War. However, the north of Istria in particular belonged to Italy until 1947. The extreme southwest of the border area then came to the Free State of Trieste , whose Zone A came to Italy in 1954, while Zone B became Yugoslav and was divided between the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
In various places (Mur, Dragonja, Gulf of Koper) the borderline has not been conclusively clarified (see International conflicts of the successor states of Yugoslavia ).
