Bled, Slovenia - postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Bled, Slovenija [Slovenia], former Yogoslavia c.1970s
• Publisher:  Turistomerc, Zagreb
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Bled (German: Veldes) is a town in northwestern Slovenia in the Upper Carniola region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Bled. The town lies within the Julian Alps and alongside Lake Bled, and is a popular tourist destination.

The town was first attested in written sources as Ueldes in 1004 (and as Veldes in 1011). The etymology of the name is unknown and it is believed to be of pre-Slavic origin. The German name of the town, Veldes, was either borrowed from Old Slovene *Beld? before AD 800 or is derived from the same pre-Slavic source as the Slovene name.

A settlement area since Mesolithic times, Bled was first mentioned as Ueldes (Veldes) within the March of Carniola on 10 April 1004, when it was awarded by Emperor Henry II to Bishop Albuin I of Brixen. Bled Castle was first mentioned in a 22 May 1011 deed in which Henry II donated it to Albuin's successor, Bishop Adalberon of Brixen. With Carniola, Bled was ceded to Rudolph of Habsburg after he defeated King Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278. From 1364 until 1919, Bled (Veldes) was part of the Duchy of Carniola, except for a period between 1809 and 1816 as one of the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces

After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Bled came under the rule of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and became a summer domicile of the ruling House of Karadordevic, a tradition that Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito continued when he built his residence here in 1947.

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period=1945 - present

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