Šmarješke Toplice () is a settlement in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern

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. It is the seat of the

Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice The Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice () is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šmarješke Toplice. The municipality is now included in the Southeast ...

. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. The settlement is best known for its

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Toplice'' to ''Šmarješke Toplice'' in 1953.

Church

The local

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

in Šmarješke Toplice is dedicated to

Saint Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...

and belongs to the nearby

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Šmarjeta Šmarjeta (; german: Sankt Margarethen''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 82.) is a village in the Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice in ...

. It is a medieval building that was restyled in the

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in the 18th century.

References

External links

Šmarješke Toplice municipal site

Populated places in the Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice Spa towns in Slovenia {{SmarjeskeToplice-geo-stub