Triglav
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 Triglav viewed from Debela Peč, 2002 |
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| Elevation | 2,864 metres (9,396 ft) |
| Location | Upper Carniola, Slovenia |
| Range | Julian Alps |
| Prominence | 2,052 metres (6,732 ft) |
| Coordinates | 46°23′00″N 13°53′00″E / 46.383333°N 13.883333°ECoordinates: 46°23′00″N 13°53′00″E / 46.383333°N 13.883333°E |
| First ascent | 1778 |
| Easiest route | scramble / via ferrata |
| Listing | Country high point Ultra |
Triglav (Italian: Monte Tricorno) is the highest mountain in Slovenia (and, formerly, in all of Yugoslavia and the Illyrian Provinces) and the Julian Alps. While its name, meaning "three-headed", can describe its shape as seen from the valley of Bohinj, the mountain may have been named after the Slavic god Triglav, although this hypothesis remains disputed, as the deity is not well understood and it is not documented whether it was ever worshipped in the area.
The mountain is the preeminent Slovene national symbol. A stylized depiction of its distinctive shape is the central element of the Slovenian coat of arms, and is in turn featured on the flag of Slovenia (and, formerly, on the arms of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia). A photorealistic relief of the mountain is the design on the national side of the Slovenian 50 eurocent coin.
The first recorded ascent of Triglav was made on 26 August 1778, by Luka Korošec, Matija Kos, Štefan Rožič and Lovrenc Willomitzer, on the initiative of baron Sigismund Zois. Its height was first measured in 1808 by Valentin Stanič.
At the top of the mountain stands a small metal structure, the Aljaž Tower (Slovene: Aljažev stolp), symbolic of Slovene territorial sovereignty and a national symbol itself. The tower's namesake was the priest, mountaineer and patriot Jakob Aljaž, who around 1900 purchased the Kredarica waypoint and the summit for the sum of five Austro-Hungarian florins.
Since 1961, the mountain has been the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park.
A Slovene flag was unfurled from the summit of Triglav on 26 June 1991, the night of the declaration of independence of Slovenia from Yugoslavia.
The Triglav area is also the setting of an old Slovene folktale concerning a hunter seeking a treasure guarded by an enchanted chamois buck named Zlatorog (Goldhorn, after its golden horns).
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[edit] Triglav in Slovene art
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Triglav was first depicted in 1776 by Franc Ksaver Baraga on the front page of the work Oryctographia Carniolica by Belsazar Hacquet.
[edit] Triglav in Slovene contemporary art
Since 1968, a certain provocative controversy has been at work in contemporary Slovene arts. This experimental, retro, avant-garde, “artivistic”, and artistic-political controversy seemingly refers to the famed happening of the group OHO’s Mount Triglav, which originally took place on 30 December 1968 in Ljubljana's Zvezda Park, and was later resurrected and reimagined, first by the group Irwin in 2004 as Like to Like/ Mount Triglav and last year it was performed atop Mount Triglav by the artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša as Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav. In the mode of an experimental artistic situation the three performances only seemingly make metaphor of the geographic national, and state symbol of Slovenia that is Mount Triglav. All of the works are the most radical executions of the “political sliding sign”, that is, the individual explanations of symptoms of Slovene identity and, more importantly, the historical construction and realization of political identities.
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- Computer generated summit panoramas North South Index
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