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The Slovene Peasant Revolt ( sl, slovenski kmečki upor, german: Windischer Bauernbund) took place in 1515 and was the largest
peasant revolt This is a chronological list of conflicts in which peasants played a significant role. Background The history of peasant wars spans over two thousand years. A variety of factors fueled the emergence of the peasant revolt phenomenon, including: ...
in the
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. It engulfed most of what is now
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as well as a significant portion of the province of Carinthia, which today is a part of
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. There were about 80,000 rebels who demanded the reintroduction of the original
feudal obligations Feudal duties were the set of reciprocal financial, military and legal obligations among the warrior nobility in a feudal system. Translated into English by Philip Grierson as ''Feudalism'', 1st ed., London, 1952. These duties developed in both E ...
and trade rights (the so-called "old rights"; sl, stara pravda) and a right to decide about the
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es. The spark which started this uprising was when the ethnic German peasants of the Gottschee region killed their lord Jorg von Thurn. They attacked the castles within the region, except in the territory of the
County of Görz The County of Gorizia ( it, Contea di Gorizia, german: Grafschaft Görz, sl, Goriška grofija, fur, Contee di Gurize), from 1365 Princely County of Gorizia, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. Originally mediate ''Vogts'' of the Patriarchs of ...
, where conflicts were solved through negotiations. The revolt was put down by the mercenaries of the
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, with the deciding battle fought at Celje. The words ''stara pravda'' were printed in 1515 in
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in a poem of the German mercenaries and were the first printed Slovene words.


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Slovene Popular revolt in late-medieval Europe Peasant revolts Slovene rebellions Slovene 16th-century rebellions 16th century in the Holy Roman Empire History of Celje 16th century in Slovenia Rebellions in Slovenia {{mil-hist-stub