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, the capital of Slovenia. Until 1974 an independent village in

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, it is today the centre of the Šentvid District, one of the districts of the Municipality of Ljubljana.

Name

Šentvid was first mentioned in written sources in 1262 as ''plebanus Sancti Viti''. The Slovene name ''Šentvid'' is a compound of Slovene ''šent'' 'saint' and ''Vid'' 'Vitus', referring to the parish church of

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. In the past, the village was also known as ''Šent Vid nad Ljubljano'' (literally, 'Saint Vitus above Ljubljana'). The settlement was known as ''Sankt Veit'' in German.

Geography

The central street in Šentvid was named Prušnik Street ( sl, Prušnikova ulica) in 1980 after the

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Partisan activist Karel Prušnik (1910–1980). Until 1977, it was part of (), one of the main city arteries. The current Klagenfurt Street bypasses the central part of Šentvid along its western side.

History

Šentvid was already inhabited in prehistoric times. Archaeological finds from the area include a

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from the

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, an arrow from the Hallstatt culture, and a Celtic silver coin. A prehistoric fortress stood on Big Trata Hill ( sl, Velika Trata) west of the village, and Roman coins have been found in the settlement.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 385–386. An elementary school was established in Šentvid in 1866, and a four-year lower secondary school was established in 1928. The St. Stanislaus Institute, an upper secondary school, was established in 1901. In

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, Šentvid was occupied by

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on 20 April 1941. The Germans established an

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there for deportations of

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into Serbia. German attacks against the

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in the Polhov Gradec Hills were led from Šentvid. The German–

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border ran just behind Šentvid. In August 1942, the writer and resistance activist Tone Čufar (born 1905) was shot in Šentvid by the Germans. During the war, the

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requisitioned the St. Stanislaus Institute. After the war, the building was used as a collection center for captured

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were created nearby.Šentvid 2 Mass Grave on Geopedia
Šentvid remained an independent settlement until 1974, when it was annexed by Ljubljana. It is now the name of a district of the city.

Parish and church

The proto-parish of Šentvid is one of the oldest in the Ljubljana region, and was already established by 1085, when it was subject to the

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. In 1351, Patriarch Nicholas granted patronage rights to his military ally, Archduke Albrecht. The parish was transferred to the newly founded

Diocese of Ljubljana The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana ( sl, Nadškofija Ljubljana, la, Archidioecesis Labacensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia. The parish church in Šentvid is dedicated to

. It was built in 1796, replacing an older structure, and was extended eastwards after the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, when the exterior was also remodeled. The old altars in the church are the work of (1814–1885). The main altar and the altar dedicated to the Virgin Mary date to 1854, and the altars dedicated to Saint Nicholas,

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, and

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date to 1870. The painting of the Virgin Mary is by (1792–1855), and the painting of Saint Joseph by Henrika Langus (1836–1876). More recent altar paintings are the work of

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, and the baptismal font was designed by

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Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Šentvid include: * Anton Belec (1857–1940), who built the Aljaž Tower in 1895, now atop Triglav * (1870–1948), religious writer and local historian * (1920–1977), architect * Janko Jovan (1878–1941), business writer * (1870–1930), painter * (1799–1872), poet, composer, and member of the national awakening movement * Frank Sakser (1859–1937), editor and publisher * Franjo Sič (1893–1953), textbook writer * Josip Slovnik (1881–1960), painter * Andrej Snoj (1886–1962), theology professor and Biblical scholar * Franc Štrukelj (1841–1895), journalist and translator * Miroslav Tomc (1850–1894), painter and composer * Ferdinand Vonča (1792–1840), religious writer * Ivan Žvan (1829–1920), who established the first Slovene mountain hiking society in 1872, the Friends of Triglav ()

References

External links

Šentvid on Geopedia
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