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Duplek
The Municipality of Duplek (; sl, Občina Duplek) is a small municipality in northeastern Slovenia. Its seat is Spodnji Duplek. The municipality lies on the left bank of the Drava River on the northwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice), about 10 km southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. Settlements In addition to the municipal seat of Spodnji Duplek, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Ciglence * Dvorjane * Jablance * Spodnja Korena * Vurberk * Zgornja Korena * Zgornji Duplek * Žikarce * Zimica Zimica () is a village in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) east of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is ... References External links * Municipality of Duplek on GeopediaDuplek municipal site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zgornji Duplek
Zgornji Duplek () is a settlement in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Drava River southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. An 8th- to 9th-century Slavic burial ground with signs of pre-Christian Pre-Christian may refer to: *Before Christianization (the spread of Christianity): **Historical polytheism (the worship of or belief in multiple deities) **Historical paganism (denoting various non-Abrahamic religions) *Before Christ (BC), the era ... burial rituals has been identified near the settlement. reference number ešd 8984 References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spodnji Duplek
Spodnji Duplek () is a settlement and the administrative centre of the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Drava River southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. A Neo-Baroque chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ... with a belfry at the crossroads in the centre of the settlement dates to 1860. reference number ešd 8967 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciglence
Ciglence (, german: Ziglenzen) is a settlement in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice), southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. The village chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ... with a small belfry dates to the early 20th century. There are two other small roadside chapel-shrines in the settlement. One dates to the first half of the 19th century and the second to the late 19th century. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dvorjane
Dvorjane () is a village in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Drava River southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Martin pri Vurbergu'' (literally, 'Saint Martin near Vurberg') to ''Dvorjane'' (literally, 'manor dwellers') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. Church The local parish church, built on the southeastern outskirts of the village, is dedicated to Saint Martin and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor ( la, Archidioecesis Mariborensis, sl, Nadškofija Maribor) is an archdiocese located in the city of Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimica
Zimica () is a village in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) east of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. A small Baroque style chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ... in the village centre was built in 1826. reference number ešd 7262 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žikarce
Žikarce () is a settlement in the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region The Drava Statistical Region ( sl, Podravska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course thro .... References External linksŽikarce at Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Duplek {{Duplek-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zgornja Korena
Zgornja Korena () is a settlement in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. Church The local parish church, built on a hill east of the village, is dedicated to Saint Barbara and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor ( la, Archidioecesis Mariborensis, sl, Nadškofija Maribor) is an archdiocese located in the city of Maribor in Slovenia. History * 1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant .... It was built in 1787 on the site of a ruined 17th-century church. Notable people Notable people that were born in Zgornja Korena include the following: * (1885–1946), literary historian, librarian, and linguist References External linksZgornja Korena at Geopedia Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vurberk
Vurberk () is a settlement in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Drava River on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice), southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Vumpah'' to ''Vurberk'' in 1982. The Slovene name ''Vumpah'' is derived from German ''Wurmbach'' and was first attested as such in 1496.Kos, Dušan. 2006. ''In Burg und Stadt: spätmittelalterlicher Adel in Krain und Untersteiermark''. Vienna: Oldenbourg, pp. 503, 508, 683. The Slovene name ''Vurberk'' originally referred to the castle above the village and is derived from German ''Wurmberg''. Vurberk Castle, destroyed in 1945, was first mentioned in 1244 as ''Wuermwerg''. Church The local parish church, built on a hill east of the village, next to a small castle, is dedicated to the Assumption ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spodnja Korena
Spodnja Korena () is a settlement in the Municipality of Duplek in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) southeast of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. A site of a Roman-era limestone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their envi ... has been identified near the settlement. reference number ešd 8979 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jablance, Duplek
Jablance () is a settlement in the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) east of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Municipality of Duplek. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. A number of Roman-era burial mounds A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of Soil, earth and Rock (geology), stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a ... have been identified near the settlement. reference number ešd 1263 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Slovenia
Slovenia is divided into 212 municipalities ( Slovene: ''občine'', singular'' občina''), of which 12 have urban (metropolitan) status. Municipalities are further divided into local communities and districts. Slovene is an official language of all the municipalities. Hungarian is a second official language of three municipalities in Prekmurje: Dobrovnik/Dobronak, Hodoš/Hodos, and Lendava/Lendva. Italian is a second official language of four municipalities (of which one has urban status) in the Slovene Littoral The Slovene Littoral ( sl, Primorska, ; it, Litorale; german: Küstenland) is one of the five traditional regions of Slovenia. Its name recalls the former Austrian Littoral (''Avstrijsko Primorje''), the Habsburg possessions on the upper Adria ...: Ankaran/Ancarano, Izola/Isola, Koper/Capodistria, and Piran/Pirano. In the EU statistics, the municipalities of Slovenia are classified as "local administrative unit 2" (LAU 2), below 58 administrative units ('), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drava Statistical Region
The Drava Statistical Region ( sl, Podravska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorje mountains in the northeast of the region. The Drava is used for the production of hydroelectricity and the fertile land around it is used for agriculture. The share of job vacancies in all available jobs is among the highest in Slovenia and the region has a positive net migration rate but a very high natural decrease, which means an overall decrease in the population. Cities and towns The Drava Statistical Region includes six cities and towns, the largest of which is Maribor. Administrative divisions The Drava Statistical Region comprises the following 41 municipalities: * Benedikt * Cerkvenjak * Cirkulane * Destrnik * Dornava * Duplek * Gorišnica * Hajdina * Hoče–Slivnica * Juršinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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