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Hell Cave ( sl, Jama Pekel) is a karst cave in the settlement of Zalog pri Šempetru in Slovenia. Name Across Slovenia there are many oronyms, regional names, and microtoponyms named ''Pekel'' or 'hell'. In folk geography, the name was used to metaphorically designate chasms, caves, shafts and other narrow, dark places; for example, in Kropa there is an oeconym ''Pekel'' originally referring to a blacksmith's shop. Semantically related names in Slovenia include Devil's Hole ( sl, Vragova luknja) in the settlement of Okrog and Devil's Ravine ( sl, Hudičev graben) in the settlement of Parož. The cave's dark, black entrance inspired the idea that the Devil lived inside. Other stories of the name's origin say that one of the rocks near the entrance was thought to look like the Devil or that warm water vapour drifting from the cave in the winter had an eerie effect. See also Hell Gorge, Pekel, Maribor, and Pekel, Trebnje. Description The cave is long and has two levels. P ...
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Zalog Pri Šempetru
Zalog pri Šempetru ( or ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the hills above the left bank of the Ložnica River, a left tributary of the Savinja north of Šempeter v Savinjski Dolini. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly c .... Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Zalog'' to ''Zalog pri Šempetru'' in 1953.''Spremembe naselij 1948–95''. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS. References External links *Zalog pri Šempetru on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Žalec {{Žalec-geo-stub ...
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Landforms Of Styria (Slovenia)
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are t ...
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Municipality Of Žalec
The Municipality of Žalec (; sl, Občina Žalec) is a municipality in Slovenia in the traditional region of Styria. The seat of the municipality is the town of Žalec. The municipality was established in its current form on 7 August 1998, when the former larger municipality of Žalec was divided into six smaller municipalities. Settlements In addition to the municipal seat of Žalec, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Arja Vas * Brnica * Dobriša Vas * Drešinja Vas * Galicija * Gotovlje * Grče * Griže * Hramše * Kale * Kasaze * Levec * Liboje * Ložnica pri Žalcu * Mala Pirešica * Migojnice * Novo Celje * Pernovo * Petrovče * Podkraj * Podlog v Savinjski Dolini * Podvin * Pongrac * Ponikva pri Žalcu * Ruše * Šempeter v Savinjski Dolini Šempeter v Savinjski Dolini (, also / / ; sl, Šempeter v Savinjski dolini) is a village in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Sav ...
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