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Matija Christian

Mayor of Ljubljana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6787458 ↗
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Matija Christian was a politician of the early 18th century in Slovenia, when the country was under the Holy Roman Empire. He became mayor of Ljubljana in 1726 and was one of the longest serving mayors in the history of the city with term of 12 years. He was succeeded by Anton Raab in 1738.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matija Christian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.