Benica ( or ; hu, Benica) is a small settlement in the
Municipality of Lendava in the
Prekmurje region of
Slovenia. It lies close to the extreme eastern tip of Slovenia, near the
Mura River on the right bank of the
Ardova Canal, close to the borders with
Croatia and
Hungary. Until the canal was built in 1910, the area occupied by the settlement was part of the
Mura Woods ( sl, Murska šuma), but then the area was cleared and in 1923 the
Esterházy
The House of Esterházy, also spelled Eszterházy (), is a Hungarian noble family with origins in the Middle Ages. From the 17th century, the Esterházys were the greatest landowner magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time that it ...
family's manorial possessions were taken away and transferred to settlers who were refugees from the
Isonzo Front. Until the
Second World War it was a
hamlet of
Pince.
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 101.]
References
External links
Benica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Lendava
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