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The extent and significance of beekeeping in Slovenia was even reported by Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693).

Polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor was a renowned aristocrat who spread the magnificence of his Duchy of Carniola (a large part of today's Slovenia) across Europe in his fundamental work, the four extensive volumes of Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Krain (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, 1689). His minute descriptions of material, social and spiritual life, depictions of castles, cities and settlements, natural phenomena and disasters, also include a reference to beekeeping as a distinctive and widespread form of economic activity. What is especially important is that he published a recipe for mead, a drink that has only recently acquired the necessary formal, legal and technical requirements for its authenticity to be internationally protected.