On the basis of arcival materials, the author depicts certain aspects of the colonisation of the Apače Field, a region on the Slovenian-Austrian frontier, where prior to World War II, landowners of German nationality had lived, to a great extent. The settlement was carried out as an intra-agrarian migration, within the implementation of the agrarian reform, with the intent of changing the ethnic composition of the territory. Some 720 colonist families had settled, coming mainly from Dolenjska, Bela Krajina and Notranjska. They settled mainly in the rural settlements of the Apače Field and its surroundings in the Slovenske Gorice.