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Matija Majar , also spelled Majer ( 7 February 1809 - 31 July 1892 ) , pseudonym Ziljski , was a Carinthian ___MASK36___ Roman Catholic priest and political activist , best known as the creator of the idea of a United Slovenia . The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges . The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea , extending from the Strait of Otranto ( where it connects to the Ionian Sea ) to the northwest and the Po Valley . The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are ___MASK62___ , ___MASK97___ and Herzegovina , Croatia , Greece , Italy , Montenegro and Slovenia . The Adriatic contains over 1 , 300 islands , mostly located along its eastern , Croatian , coast . It is divided into three basins , the northern being the shallowest and the southern being the deepest , with a maximum depth of . The Otranto Sill , an underwater ridge , is located at the border between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas . The prevailing currents flow counterclockwise from the Strait of Otranto , along the eastern coast and back to the strait along the western ( Italian ) coast . Tidal movements in the Adriatic are slight , although larger amplitudes are known to occur occasionally . The Adriatic ' s salinity is lower than the Mediterranean ' s because the Adriatic collects a third of the fresh water flowing into the Mediterranean , acting as a dilution basin . The surface water temperatures generally range from in summer to in winter , significantly moderating the Adriatic Basin ' s climate . ___MASK52___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK52___ ( ___MASK36___ : , abbr .: " RS "), is a nation state in southern Central Europe , located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes . It is bordered by Italy to the west , ___MASK11___ to the north , Hungary to the northeast , Croatia to the south and southeast , and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest . It covers and has a population of 2 . 06 million . It is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations , European Union , and NATO . The capital and largest city is Ljubljana . The ___MASK14___ ( modern spelling "") was an empire in Central Europe created out of the realms of the Habsburgs by proclamation in 1804 . It was a multinational empire and one of Europe ' s great powers . Geographically it was the second largest country in Europe after the ___MASK43___ ( 621 , 538 square kilometres [ 239 , 977 sq mi ]). It was also the third most populous after Russia and France , as well as the largest and strongest country in the German Confederation . Proclaimed in response to the First French Empire , it overlapped with the Holy Roman Empire until the latter ' s dissolution in 1806 . The " Ausgleich " of 1867 elevated ___MASK64___ ' s status . It became a separate entity from the Empire entirely , joining with it in the dual monarchy of ___MASK11___ - ___MASK64___ . United ___MASK52___ ( or ) is the name of an unrealized political programme of the ___MASK36___ national movement , formulated during the Spring of Nations in 1848 . The programme demanded ( a ) unification of all the ___MASK36___ - inhabited areas into one single kingdom under the rule of the ___MASK14___ , ( b ) equal rights of the ___MASK36___ language in public , and ( c ) strongly opposed the planned integration of the Habsburg Monarchy with the German Confederation . The programme failed to meet its main objectives , but it remained the common political program of all currents within the ___MASK36___ national movement until World War I . The ___MASK35___ was an association of 39 German states in Central Europe , created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German - speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire . Most historians have judged the Confederation to have been weak and ineffective , as well as an obstacle to the creation of a German nation - state . It collapsed due to the rivalry between ___MASK9___ and ___MASK11___ , warfare , the 1848 revolution , and the inability of the multiple members to compromise . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO '), also called the North Atlantic Alliance , is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 . The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party . Three NATO members are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear - weapon states : the United States , ___MASK37___ and the ___MASK60___ . NATO ' s headquarters are located in Haren , Brussels , Belgium , where the Supreme Allied Commander also resides . Belgium is one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe , the newest of which , Albania and ___MASK26___ , joined in April 2009 . An additional 22 countries participate in NATO ' s Partnership for Peace program , with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programmes . The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70 % of the global total . Members ' defence spending is supposed to amount to 2 % of GDP . The ___MASK87___ or Empire , occasionally also styled as the Danubian Monarchy (" Donaumonarchie "), is an unofficial appellation among historians for the countries and provinces that were ruled by the between 1521 and 1780 and then by the successor branch of Habsburg - Lorraine until 1918 . The Monarchy was a composite state composed of territories within and outside the Holy Roman Empire , united only in the person of the monarch . The dynastic capital was Vienna , except from 1583 to 1611 , when it was moved to Prague . From 1804 to 1867 the ___MASK87___ was formally unified as the ___MASK14___ , and from 1867 to 1918 as the Austro - Hungarian Empire . ___MASK36___ ( or ) or Slovenian (" slovenski jezik " or " slovenšina "), belongs to the group of South Slavic languages . It is spoken by approximately 2 . 5 million speakers worldwide , the majority of whom live in Slovenia . It is the first language of about 2 . 1 million Slovenian people and is one of the 24 official and working languages of the European Union . ___MASK26___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK26___ , is a sovereign state between Central Europe , Southeast Europe , and the Mediterranean . Its capital city is Zagreb , which forms one of the country ' s primary subdivisions , along with its twenty counties . ___MASK26___ covers and has diverse , mostly continental and Mediterranean climates . ___MASK26___ ' s Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands . The country ' s population is 4 . 28 million , most of whom are Croats , with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism . Ljubljana (; also known by other alternative names ) is the capital and largest city of ___MASK52___ . During antiquity , it was the site of a Roman city called Emona . It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro - Hungarian Empire in 1918 . ___MASK7___ , officially the Italian Republic , is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe . Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea , ___MASK7___ shares open land borders with ___MASK37___ , Switzerland , ___MASK11___ , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . ___MASK7___ covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in ___MASK7___ as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU member state . ___MASK64___ is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe . It covers an area of , situated in the Carpathian Basin and bordered by ___MASK95___ to the north , Romania to the east , Serbia to the south , Croatia to the southwest , Slovenia to the west , ___MASK11___ to the northwest , and Ukraine to the northeast . With about 10 million inhabitants , ___MASK64___ is a medium - sized member state of the European Union . The official language is Hungarian , which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world . ___MASK64___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Budapest , a significant economic hub , classified as an Alpha - global city . Major urban areas include Debrecen , Szeged , Miskolc , Pécs and Gyr .