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Moste (Žirovnica)
Moste may refer to a number of settlements in Slovenia: * Moste, Ljubljana, a neighborhood of Ljubljana *Moste, Žirovnica Moste () is one of ten villages in the Municipality of Žirovnica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Hydroelectric plant Moste is the location of the Moste Hydroelectric Plant, the first hydro-electric power plant to have been built on ..., a village in the Municipality of Žirovnica * Moste, Komenda, a settlement in the Municipality of Komenda {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moste, Ljubljana
Moste (, ) is a former village in the east-central part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. Name Moste was attested in written sources in 1324 as ''Prukke'' (and as ''dorf ze Pruk'' in 1330). The name is derived from the Slovene common noun ''most'' 'bridge', corresponding to the Bavarian Middle High German root ''pruk'' 'bridge' seen in medieval attestations of the name, referring to a settlement with a bridge. Structurally, the name may be based on the old locative form ''mostě'' '(at the) bridge' and later reanalyzed as a feminine plural noun. History The old village core of Moste stood north of the point where the Gruber Canal currently empties into the Ljubljanica, Ljubljanica River. It originally consisted of a row of houses below the sloping land ( sl, ježa) above the river, which is reflected in the old street name '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moste, Žirovnica
Moste () is one of ten villages in the Municipality of Žirovnica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Hydroelectric plant Moste is the location of the Moste Hydroelectric Plant, the first hydro-electric power plant to have been built on the Sava Dolinka River. It has a high dam (the highest dam in Slovenia to date) in the Kavčke Gorge, right before the Sava is joined by the Radovna. The plant was built using forced labor by political prisoners from camps set up after the Second World War. Church The church in the centre of the village is dedicated to Saint Martin. It is a single-aisle church with late Gothic features and frescoes on the interior dating to 1430. The altar dates to 1638 and the remaining church furnishings are from the 19th century. In the area around the church evidence of a burial ground from late Antiquity and the period of early Slavic settlement has also been discovered and the area has been officially protected as an archaeological monument. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
