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Alma Mater Europaea – European Center Maribor is an accredited non-profit research and higher education institution and part of an international university Alma Mater Europaea of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, which unites about 2000 leading scholars, 37 of which are Nobel Prize laureates. Alma Mater Europaea ECM offers doctoral, masters, and bachelor degree studies in Humanities, Social Gerontology, Ecology, Business, Web and Information technologies, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, European studies, Project Management as well as Social Studies, Healthcare, Nursing, and Physical therapy. Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, the oldest Slovenian private higher education institution, joined Alma Mater in 2014. Since 2015, a Dance Academy, the only Slovenian accredited institution offering diplomas ballet and dance studies, is part of the Alma Mater. Among the leading scholars, who teach or have given guest lectures at Alma Mater or its events, are Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet, Oxford professors Martin Kemp, Mindy Chen-Wishart, Jacob Rowbottom and Jeremy Howick, Yale professor Fred Volkmer German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld, who was the rector of Alma Mater, the Alma Mater president and cardiac surgeon Felix Unger, the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board member and former European Court of Human Rights vice-president Andras Sajo, David Erdos of Cambridge, and philosophers Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Srećko Horvat. Alma Mater faculty has participated at the leading universities' events including those of Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and Yale. Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times.Felix Unger, the then-president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, proposed the transnational European university with the Academy's members serving as faculty, and coined the name Alma Mater Europaea. Ludvik Toplak has developed the Alma Mater Europaea ECM and has served as its president since its inception. Between 2016 and 2022, Jurij Toplak served as the provost/executive vice president.

Maribor University Medical Centre (Slovene: Univerzitetni klinični center Maribor or UKC Maribor) is one of the largest medical institutions in Slovenia. It is located in Maribor, in the Magdalena District, on the right bank of Drava river.

II. gimnazija Maribor is a gymnasium in Maribor. The beginnings of the school date back to 1937. It implements the grammar school program, the sports department and the International Baccalaureate program. It is one of the most selective schools in Slovenia and the school with one of the best matura results. Its graduates have been accepted to Harvard, Cambridge, and other world's leading universities.

The Lent International Summer Festival is a major arts festival held for approximately two weeks at the end of June annually in Maribor, Slovenia. Organized by the Narodni dom Cultural Center every year the festival attracts theatre, opera, ballet performers, classical, modern, and jazz musicians and dancers from all over the world as well as visitors. There are also mimes, magicians, and acrobats performing during the festival. There are several sub festivals including the Otroški Lent (Children's Lent) which is organized to cater for the interests of children and the Lent International Jazz Festival which has attracted some of the world's most famous names including Ray Charles, B.B. King and Jose Feliciano, violinists such as Stéphane Grappelli and noted Slovene performers such as Vlado Kreslin and Zoran Predin.

The Tabor District (pronounced [ˈtaːbɔɾ]; Slovene: Mestna četrt Tabor) is a city district of the City Municipality of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. In 2017, the district had a population of 10,632.The local football club is called NK Maribor Tabor, which play their home matches at the Tabor Sports Park. Tabor is home of the Tabor Hall, the biggest indoor hall in the city, and the Tabor Ice Hall.

The Old Bridge (Slovene: Stari most), also named the State Bridge (Državni most), the Main Bridge (Glavni most), and the Drava Bridge (Dravski most), is a bridge crossing the Drava River in Maribor, northeastern Slovenia. It links Main Square (Glavni trg) and Pobrežje Street (Pobreška cesta) and is 270 metres (890 ft) long. Its central part, spanning the Drava, is 166 m (545 ft) long and has three steel arches.The bridge was completed in 1913 and opened to traffic on 23 August of that year. During World War II, it was damaged and later partially rebuilt. The last renovations took place in 1990 and 1998.

Maribor Synagogue (Slovene: Sinagoga Maribor) is a former synagogue and current museum in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Located in what was the center of the medieval Maribor ghetto Židovska ulica ("Jewish Street"), it is one of the oldest preserved synagogues in Europe, and one of only two left in Slovenia; the other being the Lendava Synagogue (Slovene: Sinagoga Lendava). It once functioned as the centre of the medieval Jewish community in Maribor, among the most prominent in the Eastern Alps-area.

The Center District (pronounced [ˈtseːntəɾ]; Slovene: Mestna četrt Center) is the central district of the City Municipality of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It comprises the inner city area of the city of Maribor, including Main Square, the commercial streets, and Maribor Town Hall. In 2014, the district had a population of 6,975.

Maribor (UK: MARR-ib-or, US: MAR-, Slovene: [ˈmáːɾibɔɾ] ; also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, the seat of the Drava statistical region and the Eastern Slovenia region. Maribor is also the economic, administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia. Maribor was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254. Like most Slovene ethnic territory, Maribor was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 Maribor became part of independent Slovenia. Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimarães, was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2012.

The Main Square of Maribor, also known as Glavni trg, is a square in Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia, situated in the northeast of the country. On 17 November 1929 the aircraft: Raab-Katzenstein KL.1 Schwalbe with registration: D-974 crashed on Main Square of Maribor, with the death of Letalski center Maribor secretary: Ivo Šestan and the factory pilot Hans Müller. It used to be home to Maribor Slovenia's merchants' and on the upper side of the square is home to an open market.

The Plague Column (Slovene: Kužno znamenje) is a monument at Main Square (Glavni trg) of the city of Maribor, northeastern Slovenia, erected by "pious burghers" in gratitude for the end of a 1680 plague epidemic that had claimed a third of the city's population. The original monument was built in 1681. The current one is a 1743 replacement, the first work by the German sculptor Joseph Straub in Maribor. It is considered his most monumental work, and one of the best examples of baroque art in Slovenia. The column is made entirely of white marble, and consists of an ornate rectangular pedestal that supports a Corinthian column bearing a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary, crowned with twelve stars and standing on the moon (a reference to Revelation 12:1). At its base, the column is surrounded by six saints, to which the townspeople prayed for intercession: St. Francis of Assisi St. Sebastian St. James St. Anthony of Padua St. Roch St. Francis XavierThe monument was later surrounded by an ornamental stone fence.

Marburg's Bloody Sunday (German: Marburger Blutsonntag, Slovene: Mariborska krvava nedelja) was a massacre that took place on Monday, 27 January 1919 in the city of Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau) in Slovenia. Soldiers from the army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), under the command of Slovene officer Rudolf Maister, killed between 9 and 13 civilians of German ethnic origin, wounding a further 60, during a protest in a city centre square. Estimates of casualties differ between Slovene and Austrian sources. In November 1918, after the First World War ended, the territories of southern Carinthia and southern Styria, which had been claimed by both the Republic of German Austria and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, were captured by military units under Maister's command. Maribor was the largest city of southern Styria and had a predominately German population, while the surroundings were almost exclusively Slovene. A US delegation led by Sherman Miles visited Maribor on 27 January 1919 as part of a wider mission to resolve territorial disputes. On the same day, German citizens organised a protest proclaiming their desire for Maribor to be incorporated into the Republic of German Austria. When the German protesters attacked the Slovenian police commissioner Ivan Senekovič, Maister's soldiers fired shots into the air and later at the people, causing few casualties. In response, German Austria launched a military offensive which expelled the Yugoslavs from several small towns in Upper Styria along the Mur River. A ceasefire was agreed under the mediation of France in February 1919. According to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, signed on 10 September 1919, Maribor and the rest of Lower Styria became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. No one was ever charged over the Maribor shooting.