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he Culture of Wine in Slovenia

Table 1
Land area planted with vines and yields in the late 18th century,
according to the Josephine land register 19

Area in hectares Yield in hectolitres Yield in hectolitres/hectare

Styria 29,186 335,169 11.5
Carniola 8,659 93,166 10,7

Table 2
Land area and yields in 1870,
according to the land register created during the rule of Franz I 20

Area in hectares Yield in hectolitres Yield in hectolitres/hectare

Styria 23,512 517,616 22.0
222,671 23.1
Carniola (with the
80,226 13.5
upper Vipava area) 9,621

Littoral (without

the upper Vipava area

and Koper) 5,952

Table 3
Land area after the renovation of 1896 21

Surface in hectares

Styria 22,746
Carniola (with the upper Vipava area) 10,871
Littoral (without the upper Vipava area) 6,928
Koper area
5,950

Total: 46,495

Table 4
Land area in Podravje and Posavje (without Primorska) 22

1896 22,968 hectares
1954 15,493
1969 22,879

Table 5
Total winegrowing area on the territory of the present-day Slovenia23

hectares reduction of hectares

1896 45,938 /
1954 31,346 -14,592
1969 21,881 -9,465

19 Valenčič, 1970, p. 294.
20 Valenčič, 1970, p. 296-97
21 Valenčič, 1970, p. 301
22 Belec, 1976, p. 34
23 Ibid., p. 34

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