 Several towns, especially in Lower Styria, maintained a German-speaking majority until the late 1910s, most notably Maribor, Celje and Ptuj.The area around Kočevje in Lower Carniola, known as the Gottschee County, had a predominantly German-speaking population between the 14th century and 1941 when they were resettled in an agreement between Nazi German and Fascist Italian occupation forces.A similar German "linguistic island" within an ethnically Slovene territory existed in what is now the Italian "comune" of Tarvisio, but used to belong to the Duchy of Carinthia until 1919.