Editing Ljubljana (section)

===Antiquity===
{{Main|Emona}}
[[File:Emona3.JPG|thumb|Excavations at the building site of the planned new [[National and University Library of Slovenia]]. One of the discoveries was an ancient Roman public bath house.<ref name="Zupanek_20102">Bernarda Županek (2010) [http://www.culture.si/en/Emona,_Legacy_of_a_Roman_City "Emona, Legacy of a Roman City"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062836/https://www.culture.si/en/Emona,_Legacy_of_a_Roman_City |date=17 July 2019}}, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana.</ref>]]
Around 50 BC, the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] built a military encampment that later became a permanent settlement called [[Emona|Iulia Aemona]].<ref name="Histo22">{{cite web |title=The Times of Roman Emona |url=http://www.ljubljana.si/en/about-ljubljana/history/times-of-roman-emona/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315124047/http://www.ljubljana.si/en/about-ljubljana/history/times-of-roman-emona/ |archive-date=15 March 2010 |access-date=31 October 2009}}</ref><ref name="roman emona2">{{cite web |title=Roman Emona |url=http://www.culture.si/en/Roman_Emona |access-date=15 October 2012 |work=Culture.si |publisher=Ministry of culture of the republic of Slovenia |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004123636/http://www.culture.si/en/Roman_Emona |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="legacy2">{{cite web |title=Emona, Legacy of a Roman City |url=http://www.culture.si/en/Emona,_Legacy_of_a_Roman_City |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062836/https://www.culture.si/en/Emona,_Legacy_of_a_Roman_City |archive-date=17 July 2019 |access-date=15 October 2012 |work=Culture.si |publisher=Ministry of culture of the republic of Slovenia}}</ref> This entrenched fort was occupied by the ''[[Legio XV Apollinaris]]''.<ref name="Apollinaris2">{{in lang|fr}} Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt''. de Gruyter, 1988. {{ISBN|3-11-011893-9}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=74vdDevajNoC&dq=Emona+legion+XV&pg=PA343 Google Books, p.343] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503154930/https://books.google.com/books?id=74vdDevajNoC&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=Emona+legion+XV&source=web&ots=Oz_GEBKbi_&sig=jODLhDZxfNwHfBW48cBMhE2GCs0&hl=fr&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result |date=3 May 2016 }}</ref> In 452, it was destroyed by the [[Huns]] under [[Attila the Hun|Attila]]'s orders,<ref name="Histo22" /> and later by the [[Ostrogoths]] and the [[Lombards]].<ref name="Artis2">Daniel Mallinus, ''La Yougoslavie'', Éd. Artis-Historia, Brussels, 1988, D/1988/0832/27, p. 37-39.</ref> Emona housed 5,000 to 6,000 inhabitants and played an important role during battles. Its plastered brick houses, painted in different colours, were connected to a [[Sewage|drainage system]].<ref name="Histo22" />

In the 6th century, the ancestors of the [[Slovenes]] moved in. In the 9th century, they fell under [[Franks|Frankish]] domination, while experiencing frequent [[Hungarian people|Magyar]] raids.<ref name="Histo62">{{cite web |title=Ljubljana in the Middle Ages |url=http://www.ljubljana.si/en/about-ljubljana/history/ljubljana-in-middle-ages/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318072655/http://www.ljubljana.si/en/about-ljubljana/history/ljubljana-in-middle-ages/ |archive-date=18 March 2010 |access-date=31 October 2009}}</ref> Not much is known about the area during the settlement of [[Slavs]] in the period between the downfall of Emona and the Early Middle Ages.