Greater Slovenia

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Karantania around 828

Greater Slovenia (Slovenian Velika Slovenija) is a term applied to certain radical trends within Slovenian nationalism.

The main objective of the ideology is that all Slovenes would live in one country, with the surrounding lands which once belonged to Karantanians to be an enlarged Slovenia^{[citation needed]}. This includes Carinthia (Koroška), Province of Gorizia (Goriška), Province of Trieste (Tržaška regija), Canal valley (Kanalska dolina), Venetian Slovenia (Beneška slovenija), Resia (Rezija)) all of Lower Styria (Spodnja Štajerska), Szentgotthárd (Monošter), Kvarner Gulf (Kvarner) and Istria (Istra). A popular theory is of a linguistic nature in that the people of Croatia confined to the traditional Kajkavian speaking zone are rightfully Slovenes, a view shared by right-wing Serbs whose own optimal choice would be a state taking in other large parts of Croatia^{[citation needed]}.

More extreme views suggest that a true Slovenian land should also incorporate^{[citation needed]}: Upper Styria, Zgornja Štajerska (Austria); Friuli-Venezia Giulia Furlanija-Julijska Krajina (Italy); Eastern Lombardy, Vzhodna Lombardija (Italy); The Veneto, Benečija (Italy); Tyrol, Tirolska in its entirety (Italy and Austria); Salzburg, Solnograško (Austrian city on border with Bavaria); and Lower Pannonia, Spodnja Panonija as far remote as eastern Hungary.