Alojz Knafelc was a Slovene mountaineer and the inventor of the 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 trail blaze. He was born in 1859 and died in 1937. At first he worked as a drawer for the project of constructing the railway connection between Hrpelje

Hrpelje

Hrpelje is a settlement in the municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is the administrative center of the municipality....

 and Kozina

Kozina

Kozina is a settlement in the municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina in the Littoral region of Slovenia, close to the border with Italy.The village developed only after the railway was established; in 1825 there were only three houses in Kozina. It became an important center for teamsters, with twelve inns...

. Here he had to take care of different signatures and measurement tables. Several times he recoloured the Aljaž Tower on Triglav

Triglav

Triglav is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak of the Julian Alps. While its name, meaning "three-headed", can describe its shape as seen from the Bohinj area, the mountain was most probably named after the Slavic god Triglav. The mountain is the preeminent symbol of the Slovene...

. He also wrote the instructions on path-blazing, published in 1922 in the Alpine Gazette . The Knafelc blaze has later been used all over Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 and is prescribed for Slovenia by the 2007 Mountain Paths Act .

The Knafelc blaze is a white point encircled by a red ring. Its total size should be between 8 in 10 cm, while the relationship between the red and white point in the cross-section should be 1:2. A variant with a yellow point in the center is used for the European long-distance paths

European long-distance paths

The European long-distance paths are a network of long-distance footpaths that traverse Europe. While most long-distance footpaths in Europe are located in just one country or region, each of these numbered European long-distance paths passes through many different countries.The European...

 E6

European walking route E6

The E6 European long distance path or E6 path is one of the European long-distance paths from the northwest tip of Finland through Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria to the Adriatic coast in Slovenia...

 and E7

European walking route E7

The E7 European long distance path or E7 path is one of the European long-distance paths from the Portuguese-Spanish border eastwards through Andorra, France, Italy, Slovenia and Hungary...

. A variant with a green circle around a red circle and a white point in the center is used on the borders of the country.