Slovenj Gradec is one of the oldest and most significant Slovene medieval towns. The treatise depicts the beginning of the development of urban settlement in the 12th and 13th centuries. The first explicit mention as forum from the year 1251 is a tipical case of poorly preserved documents. Important princes as owners of the estate, mention of trading and toll collection around the year 1200, minting of the coins of the counts of Andechs from the last decade of the 12th century, residence of margrave of Istria (1208–1228) prove that the town undoubtedly originates already in the 12th century.
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The discussion on Višnja gora on the basis of the so far unknown document sources attempts to establish when the settlement became a market town, whereas the discussion on Črnomelj provides an answer to the question when the Črnomelj market town became a town, and continues to describe the basic characteristics of its political, administrative, economic and demographic development.
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