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Ljubljana (; (:luˈblàːna), also known by other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, a Slovene-inhabited part of the Habsburg Monarchy, and it has been the cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative center of independent Slovenia since 1991.〔 Its central geographic location within Slovenia, transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and cultural tradition are contributing factors to its leading position. ==Name and symbol== The origin of the city's name is unclear. In the Middle Ages, both the river and the town were also known by the German name ''Laibach'', which was in official use until 1918. The city is called in and in (ラテン語:Labacum) or ''Aemona'' For most scholars, the problem has been in how to connect the Slovene and the German names. The origin from the Slavic ''ljub''- "to love, like" was in 2007 supported as the most probable by the linguist Tijmen Pronk, a specialist in comparative Indo-European linguistics and Slovene dialectology, from the University of Leiden. He supported the thesis that the name of the river derived from the name of the settlement. The linguist Silvo Torkar, who specializes in Slovene personal and place names, argued at the same place for the thesis that the name ''Ljubljana'' derives from ''Ljubija'', the original name of the Ljubljanica River flowing through it, itself derived from the Old Slavic male name ''Ljubovid'', "the one of a kindly appearance". The name ''Laibach'', he claimed, was actually a hybrid of German and Slovene and derived from the same personal name. The symbol of the city is the Ljubljana Dragon. It is depicted on the top of the tower of Ljubljana Castle in the Ljubljana coat of arms and on the Ljubljanica-crossing Dragon Bridge (). It symbolizes power, courage, and greatness. There are several explanations on the origin of the Ljubljana Dragon. According to the Slavic myth the slaying of dragon releases the waters and ensures the fertility of the earth, and it is thought that the myth in this area is tied to the Ljubljana Marshes, the expansive area that has been threatening because of frequent flooding that reached Ljubljana.〔(Exhibition catalogue Emona: myth and reality ); Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana 2010〕 According to the celebrated Greek legend, the Argonauts on their return home after having taken the Golden Fleece found a large lake surrounded by a marsh between the present-day towns of Vrhnika and Ljubljana. It is there that Jason struck down a monster. This monster has become the dragon that today is present in the city coat of arms and flag.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The dragon – city emblem )〕 It is historically more believable that the dragon was adopted from Saint George, the patron of the Ljubljana Castle chapel built in the 15th century. In the legend of Saint George, the dragon represents the old ancestral paganism overcome by Christianity. According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon was at first only a decoration above the city coat of arms. In the Baroque, it became part of the coat of arms, and in the 19th and especially the 20th century, it outstripped the tower and other elements. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ljubljana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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