S.TIMES/ S. Sherwood/ TRAVEL
Slovenia and its 2 million citizens are celebrating the nation's 20th anniversary of independence in 2011.
This travel piece's author calls Ljubljana "a kind of Slavic Copenhagen, a portrait of efficiency and prosperity."
"In history we belong more to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and to the West, so we have always been kind of apart, this tiny little bubble that didn't really fit completely" in Yugoslavia, said a resident.
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