Sveti Lovrenc (other)
Sveti Lovrenc may refer to several places in Slovenia: *Lovrenc na Dravskem Polju, a settlement in the Municipality of Kidričevo, known as ''Sveti Lovrenc na Dravskem Polju'' until 1952 *Lovrenc na Pohorju, a settlement in the Municipality of Lovrenc na Pohorju, known as ''Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju'' until 1952 * Močle, a settlement in the Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah, known as ''Sveti Lovrenc pri Šmarju'' until 1955 *Sveti Lovrenc, Prebold Sveti Lovrenc () is a village in the Municipality of Prebold in east-central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement was ...

Lovrenc Na Dravskem Polju
Lovrenc na Dravskem Polju (; sl, Lovrenc na Dravskem polju) is a village in the Municipality of Kidričevo in northeastern Slovenia. Traditionally the entire area was part of the Styria region. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Lovrenc na Dravskem polju'' (literally, 'Saint Lawrence on the Drava Plain') to ''Lovrenc na Dravskem polju'' (literally, 'Lawrence on the Drava Plain') in 1952. 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, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It was built in 1414 on the site of an earlier church, first mentioned in written documents dating to ...
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Lovrenc Na Pohorju
Lovrenc na Pohorju (; german: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn or ''Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg'') is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Lovrenc na Pohorju. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju'' (literally, 'Saint Lawrence on Pohorje') to ''Lovrenc na Pohorju'' (literally, 'Lawrence on Pohorje') in 1952. 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. Churches The parish church from which the settlement gets its name is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to th ...
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Močle
Močle () is a village in the Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah in eastern Slovenia. It lies in the hills west of Šmarje. The area is part of the historical Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. It is a clustered village on the south side of a gentle slope. It includes the hamlets of Erpoge and Sveti Lovrenc.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 376–377. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Lovrenc pri Šmarju'' (literally, 'Saint Lawrence near Šmarje') to ''Močle'' 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. The name ''Močle'' and names like it (e.g., '' Močile'', ''Močilno'') are derived from the Slovene common noun ''močilo, močila'' ' ...
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