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Podgora, Ljubljana
Podgora () is a former settlement in central Slovenia in the northwest part of the capital Ljubljana. It belongs to the Šentvid District of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. 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. Geography Podgora lies south of Šentvid, between Klagenfurt Street (''Celovška cesta'') and Gradišče Hill (441 m) along the old road to Pržan.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 385–386. A creek rises from a spring above the village and follows a ditch along the main road, where much residential housing was built after the Second World War. Name Podgora was attested in historical sources as ''vnder dem perg ... in sand Veits pharr'' in 1414, ''zum Perg'', in 1453 and ''vntterm Perg'' in 1496, among other spellings. The name ''Podgora'' is a fused prepositional phrase that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Slovenia
The national flag of Slovenia ( sl, zastava Slovenije) features three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red, with the Coat of arms of Slovenia located in the upper hoist side of the flag centered in the white and blue bands. The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the center; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovene dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. The flag's colors are considered to be Pan-Slavism, Pan-Slavic, but they actually come from the Middle Ages, medieval coat of arms of the Duchy of Carniola, consisting of 3 stars, a mountain, and three colors (red, blue, yellow). crescent. The existing Slovene tricolor was raised for the first time in history duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pržan
Pržan (, sometimes ''Pržanj'',Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 386. in older sources also ''Peržanj''''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 112. or Peržan;''Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung'', no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 19. german: Preschgain) is a former settlement in central Slovenia in the northwest part of the capital Ljubljana. It belongs to the Šentvid District of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. 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 The Central Slovenia Statistical Region ( sl, Osrednjeslovenska statistična regija) is a statistical region in central Slovenia. Geography This is the second-largest region in terms of territory. It has a total area of 2,555 km ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivanka Ribič, Née Rožmanc
Ivanka may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Ivanka (given name), including a list of people with the name Places * 8573 Ivanka (1996 VQ), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1996 * Ivanka pri Dunaji (Hungarian: Pozsonyivánka), a village and municipality in western Slovakia * Ivanka pri Nitre, a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia Other uses * Ivanka (horse) (born 1990), Thoroughbred racehorse * "Ivanka", a song by Imperial Teen on the album '' On'' See also * Ivanković Ivanković ( sr, Иванковић) is a South Slavic surname, derived from the male given name Ivanko. Notable people with the surname include: *Antun Ivanković (born 1939), Croatian rower *Branko Ivanković (born 1954), Croatian football manag ..., surname * Jovanka (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Knez (merchant)
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English '' John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Knez
Anton may refer to: People *Anton (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Anton (surname) Places *Anton Municipality, Bulgaria **Anton, Sofia Province, a village *Antón District, Panama **Antón, a town and capital of the district *Anton, Colorado, an unincorporated town *Anton, Texas Anton ( ) is a city in Hockley County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,126 at the 2010 census. History Anton was founded in 1924 near the center of the north pasture of the former Spade Ranch when ranch owner William Leonard Ellwood ..., a city *Anton, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *River Anton, Hampshire, United Kingdom Other uses *Case Anton, codename for the German and Italian occupation of Vichy France in 1942 *Anton (computer), a highly parallel supercomputer for molecular dynamics simulations *Anton (1973 film), ''Anton'' (1973 film), a Norwegian film *Anton (2008 film), ''Anton'' (2008 film), an Irish film *Anton Cup, the championship t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinko Bitenc
Vinko is a masculine name related to Vincent, and may refer to: Given name *Frane Vinko Golem (1938–2007), Croatian diplomat and politician *Vinko Begović (born 1948), Croatian football coach *Vinko Bogataj (born 1950), former ski jumper from Slovenia *Vinko Brešan (born 1964), Croatian film director *Vinko Coce (1954–2013), Croatian singer *Vinko Dvořák (1848–1922), Czech-Croatian physicist, professor and rector of Zagreb University *Vinko Globokar (born 1934), avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent *Vinko Golob (1921–1995), Bosnian football player *Vinko Knežević (1755–1832), Austrian general of the Napoleonic Wars *Vinko Ošlak (born 1947), Slovene author, essayist, translator, columnist and esperantist from the Austrian state Carinthia *Vinko Pintarić (1941–1991), Croatian serial killer *Vinko Pribojević (born mid-15th century), Croatian historian, ideologue and founder of the pan-Slavic ideology *Vinko Puljić (born 1945), Bosnian Croat Card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podgorje, Apače
Podgorje () is a settlement in the Municipality of Apače in northeastern Slovenia. References External links Podgorje on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Apače {{Apače-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podgorica, Dobrepolje
Podgorica () is a village south of Videm in the Municipality of Dobrepolje in Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. Church The local church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary ( sl, Rožnovenska Mati božja) and belongs to the Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ... of Dobrepolje–Videm. It dates to the mid-17th century with major 19th-century alterations. References External links *Podgorica on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Dobrepolje {{Dobrepolje-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šentvid District
The Šentvid District (; sl, Četrtna skupnost Šentvid), or simply Šentvid, is a district () of the City Municipality of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is named after the former village of Šentvid. Geography The Šentvid District is bounded on the west by a line running through the Polhov Gradec Hills, on the north by the Sava River The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ..., on the east by a line through farmland east of the A2 Freeway, and on the south by Stegne Street, Jože Jama Street (Ulica Jožeta Jama), Pečnik Street (Pečnikova ulica), Trata Street (''Na Trati''), Zapuže Street (''Zapuška Cesta''), and Kamna Gorica Street (''Kamnogoriška cesta''). The district includes the former settlements of Brod, Podgora, Poljane, Pržan, Šentvid, Trata, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, one of the Slovene-inhabited parts of the Habsburg monarchy. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. After World War II, Ljubljana became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The city retained this status until Slovenia became independent in 1991 and Ljubljana became the capital of the newly formed state. Name The origin of the name ''Ljubljana'' is unclear. In the Middle Ages, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
