Kmetijske in rokodelske novice

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''Kmetijske in rokodelske novice'' ( en, Agricultural and Artisan News), frequently referred to simply as ''Novice'' (''News''), was a Slovene-language newspaper in the 19th century, which had an influential role in the

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. For its first two years of publication (1843–1844) the newspaper's name was spelled ''Kmetijſke in rokodélſke novize'' (using the Bohorič alphabet), and from 1845 onward ''Kmetijske in rokodélske novice'' (using

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). It was established in 1843 by the

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editor Janez Bleiweis, who later became one of the main leaders of the Slovene national movement. Between 1843 and 1852, it was issued on a weekly basis, between 1852 and 1857 two times a week, and after 1857 again once a week. It was edited by Bleiweis until his death in 1881. Between the 1840s and the 1870s, it was the most influential newspaper in Slovene and, together with the German-language ''

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'', the most widespread newspaper in the

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. Its role in the cultural formation of the Slovene people was great. The newspaper was crucial in the development of standard Slovene in the mid-19th century, including the introduction of

in the 1840s.

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's manifesto on

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was first published in the newspaper, as was

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's poem ''

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'', the 7th stanza of which would later become the Slovenian national anthem. Many other important Slovene authors wrote in the newspapers, including

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, and

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. In the beginning, the newspaper was mostly diffused in

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, but in the 1850s its readership spread throughout the

. In the early 1860s, it served as the main herald of the Slovene national movement. With the rise of political differentiation within Slovene nationalism in the late 1860s, and the establishment of two rival daily newspapers, the national liberal '' Slovenski narod'' (1868) and the

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'' Slovenec'' (1873), the influence of ''Novice'' declined. After the pluralization of the media scene in the 1880s and 1890s, it became completely marginal, and it ceased publication in 1902. Slovene-language newspapers Publications established in 1843 Publications disestablished in 1902 Defunct newspapers published in Slovenia Mass media in Ljubljana 1843 establishments in the Austrian Empire