(IPA: ) is the capital and largest city in Slovenia. It is situated in central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Mediterranean.
Name
Historians disagree as to where the name Ljubljana comes from. The name could have evolved from the
Latin term for a flooding river,
alluviana. Some also believe the source of the present-day name is
Laburus, an old
Slavonic deity and supposed patron of the original settlement. Other linguists reconstruct an earlier
*Lablana, rejecting both a Latin or Slavonic source, but without settling on an etymology
[Paliga, Sorin. Pre-Slavic place-names. 2002.].
Laibach () the German name for the city, may derive from Laubach (a lukewarm beck in German). The Italian name is Lubiana (). These are important for historical reasons.
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