Habsburg dynasty Historically the modern-day territory of Slovenia consisted of a number of historical lands and territories which were eventually all ruled by the Austrian
House of Habsburg. Until the dissolution of
Austria-Hungary, the
Slovene Lands did not have a coat of arms representing the whole nation; instead, (most of) the constituent lands had their own coats of arms: •
Windic March, later part of the
County of Cilli •
County of Cilli, later part of the Duchy of Carniola •
Duchy of Carniola • southern
Duchy of Carinthia • Lower
Duchy of Styria •
Slovene March in the
Vas county of the
Kingdom of Hungary, with the adjacent zones of the
Zala county (
Beltinci,
Turnišče,
Velika Polana,
Kobilje) •
County of Gorizia and Gradisca, later part of the
Austrian Littoral •
Istria (in the modern municipalities of
Koper,
Izola,
Piran,
Hrpelje-Kozina,
Muggia and
Dolina), part of the
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941 with the Slovenian arms in the lower half When the
State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs merged with
Kingdom of Serbia, Slovenia had its
first real coat of arms, which actually was a heavily modified one from the Serbian Kingdom. The coat of arms presents the Serbian shield with white cross on the left, the Croatian shield on the right and under both there is a blue shield representing Slovenes. An image of the royal Yugoslav coat of arms can be seen on the 10-
Yugoslav dinar banknote of 1926.
Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1945–1991) The emblem of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia was designed by
Branko Simčič on the basis of the symbol of the
Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation. It is in the style of
socialist emblem of other communist nations. The sea and the mount
Triglav motive appeared in the emblem of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, one of six constituent republics of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The former emblem was rounded by
wheat with
linden leaves and featured a
red star at the top. There was also the other emblem which presented Yugoslavia as a whole.
Republic of Slovenia A tender for the design of a new coat of arms of Slovenia was published in May 1991. It was won by Marko Pogačnik, whose design was meant to represent Slovenia as a macroregional entity, and to follow in the footsteps of the poet
France Prešeren and the architect
Jože Plečnik: the arms reflect the description of nature in Prešeren's 19th-century
epic The Baptism on the Savica, and are based on Plečnik's informal 1934 proposal for a new coat of arms of Slovenia (in the from of a pillar dedicated to the Virgin Mary outside the
parish church of Bled.) Pogačnik's design was proclaimed the new official coat of arms of Slovenia with the
constitutional amendment C 100, which took effect on 24 June 1991.
Historical symbols Carniola coat of arms.png|Coat of arms of the
Duchy of Carniola (until 1918) Arms of Illyrian Slovenia.svg|Inescutcheon symbolizing Slovenia and the
Illyrian movement on the coat of arms of
Yugoslavia (1918–1941) Znak Slovenskega Domobranstva.svg|Emblem of German-collaborationist
Slovene Home Guard (1943–1945) ==Symbolics==