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This work by Jan Bernot is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
With the spread of the national idea in the fi nal decades of the 19th century, the process of national diff erentiation began in the bilingual villages on the outskirts of the Gottschee region. The bilin-gual rural population, who spoke Gottscheerish at home and prayed in Carniolan or Slovene, was driven by the actions of nationalist activists and the demands of the civil administration to identify as Germans or Slovenes. In the paper at hand, the author examines the described process through a microstudy focusing on the impact of the school problem in the rural municipality of Trava.