Šprinc () is a small settlement in the
Municipality of Razkrižje
The Municipality of Razkrižje (; sl, Občina Razkrižje) is a small municipality in Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Razkrižje. It was part of Zala County in the Kingdom of Hungary. It is now included in the Mura Statisti ...
in eastern
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, an ...
, next to the border with
Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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. The area traditionally belonged to
Zala County
Zala ( hu, Zala megye, ; ; ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia ( Koprivnica–Križevci and Međimurje Counties) and Slovenia ( Lend ...
in the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
and is now included in the
Mura Statistical Region
The Mura Statistical Region ( sl, Pomurska statistična regija) is a statistical region in northeast Slovenia. It is predominantly agricultural with field crops representing over three-quarters of the total agricultural area (twice as much as the ...
.
There is a small
chapel-shrine
A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ...
with a
belfry in the settlement at the crossroads leading to
Kopriva. It was built in the late 19th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 8887
References
External links
Šprinc on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Razkrižje
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