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The shortest answer is: (most likely) no. It also depends on what exactly is meant with indigenous in this case. I think all prominent noble families came from somewhere and only then inculturated.
During the socialist Yugoslavia, the history of our nobility had been written exclusively from an extremely negative perspective. And all of them were deemed as foreigners (Germans) who exploited poor Slovenes. Luckily, this is changing, as new generations of historians who research this aren’t from the onset determined to spread a negative and ideological narrative.
I don’t know nearly enough about our nobility to give an objective judgement; however, I’ll mention the Counts of Cilli (Celje). They were the most important noble family here and were even rivals to the Habsburgs themselves. The three golden stars from their coat of arms appear today in that of Slovenia, including the flag.
Some of the others nobles who either had their main residence here or were relevant as they held possessions in our lands were from the Houses of Auersperg, Attems, Andechs, Spanheim, Herberstein, Otakar, Heunburg, Windisch-Graetz. An exhaustive list is here.
I almost forgot to mention that Barbara of Cilli was the Holy Roman Empress.
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