page_title: Inner Carniola
section_title: Part of Italy
hierarchical_section_title: Inner Carniola / History / Part of Italy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Treaty of Rapallo and the Italianization of ethnic Slovenes on the Ethnographic map of Austria-Hungary.
context_page_description: Inner Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral in the west. Its administrative and economic center of the region is Postojna, and other minor centers include Logatec, Cerknica, Pivka, and Ilirska Bistrica.
context_section_description: After World War One, the western part of the region was occupied by the Italian military. In 1920, the Treaty of Rapallo transferred the western part of the region (with around two-thirds of the population) to the Kingdom of Italy. The eastern third was included into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia).
  Italy was given the districts of Vipava, Postojna, Ilirska Bistrica, Senožeče, and Idrija. The region was divided among the provinces of Gorizia, Trieste, and Fiume (Rijeka). With the rise of Fascism, it was subjected to a policy of violent Italianization until the downfall of Fascism in Italy. In 1947, it was transferred to Yugoslavia, which had occupied it since 1945.
caption: The annexed western quarter of Slovene ethnic territory, and approximately 327,000 out of the total population of 1.3[2] million Slovenes,[3] were subjected to forced Fascist Italianization. On the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries.
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