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commerce. Two monastic orders - the Dominicans and the Franciscan Minorites - settled
here and built important monasteries. The Magyars attacked and occupied Ptuj for most of
the 15th century.
When the railroad reached eastern Slovenia from Vienna on its way to the coast in the
mid-19th century, the age-old rivalry between Maribor and Ptuj turned one-sided: the
former was on the line and the latter missed out altogether. The town remained essentially
a provincial centre with a German majority until WWI.
Ptuj
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