Zdravljica

"Zdravljica" (; ) is a carmen figuratum poem by the 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet France Prešeren, inspired by the ideals of Liberté, égalité, fraternité. It was written in 1844 and published with some changes in 1848. Four years after it was written, Slovenes living within Habsburg Empire interpreted the poem in spirit of the 1848 March Revolution as political promotion of the idea of a united Slovenia. In it, the poet also declares his belief in a free-thinking Slovene and Slavic political awareness. In 1989, it was adopted as the regional anthem of Slovenia, becoming the national anthem upon independence in 1991. Zdravljica was awarded the European Heritage Label in 2020.

== History == thumb|left|A censorship|censored manuscript, ready to be published in the collection Poezije (Poems) in 1846. A modified version was published in full in 1848. The full version of the poem was first published only after the March Revolution, when Austrian censorship was abolished—censorship did not allow the poem to be printed earlier because of its political message. On 26 April 1848, it was published by the Slovene newspaper Kmetijske in rokodelske novice, which was edited by the Slovene conservative political leader Janez Bleiweis.