Artiža Vas (; sl, Artiža vas) is a small
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the
Municipality of Ivančna Gorica
The Municipality of Ivančna Gorica (; sl, Občina Ivančna Gorica) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Ivančna Gorica. Ivančna Gorica became a municipa ...
in central
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 ...
. It lies just east of Ivančna Gorica and the
A2 motorway runs across the settlement's territory just north of the village core. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola
Lower Carniola ( sl, Dolenjska; german: Unterkrain) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region.
Geography
Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of Ljubljana to the no ...
. The municipality is now included 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 km², with a ...
.
Name
Artiža Vas was attested in historical sources as ''Hartwigisdorf'' in 1190, ''Hertwigisdorff'' in 1250, and ''Erwischendorff'' in 1505.
Cultural heritage
A small roadside
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 ...
in the middle of the village dates to the late 19th century.
References
External links
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Artiža Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica
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