National Progressive Party (Carniola) Explained

The National Progressive Party (sl|Narodno napredna stranka) was a political party in the Carniola region of Austria-Hungary. It was established in 1894 by Ivan Tavčar as the National Party of Carniola (Slovenian: Narodna stranka za Kranjsko); it was renamed The National Progressive Party in 1905. It continued to operate under this name until after the First World War, when it merged with the National Party of Styria (Slovenian: Narodna Stranka za Štajersko) into the Yugoslav Democratic Party, only to be incorporated into the pan-Yugoslav State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats (sh|Državnotvorna stranka demokrata Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca) less than a year later.

The National Progressive Party adopted a liberal nationalist political stance and had a clear majority in the municipal council of Ljubljana-Laibach during the 1880s.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Rok Stergar. Markian Prokopovych. Carl Bethke. Tamara Scheer . Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire. 2019. Brill. Leiden; Boston. 978-90-04-40797-8. 62 . https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407978_005. The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: The Case of Ljubljana-Laibach. 10.1163/9789004407978_005.