The basic mission of the Milko Kos Historical Institute is the study of Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n history from its beginnings to the end of the World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. The institute's research work is carried out in the form of programmes and projects and follows the guidelines, put forth by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts:

• publication of sources concerning Slovenian history,
• studies of historical topography and colonization of Slovenian territory,
• studies of economic and social history of Slovenians,
• problems of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century Slovenian history

Founded in 1947, the Institute was originally conceived as the Section of General and National History at the Institute of history, which was headed by professor Milko Kos

Milko Kos

Milko Kos was a Slovenian historian, considered the father of the so-called Ljubljana school of historiography....

. In 1972 the presidium of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts resolved to transform the Section into an independent Institute of General and National History. The latter got its present-day name in 1977.