Brezje () is a small settlement in the
City Municipality of Novo Mesto
The City Municipality of Novo Mesto (; sl, Mestna obÄina Novo mesto) is a municipality in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Novo Mesto. The municipality of Novo Mesto is part of ...
in southeastern
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 in the hills to the south of the main road between Novo Mesto and
Å entjernej
Å entjernej ( or ; in older sources also ''Å ent Jernej'',''Leksikon obÄin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 72. german: Sankt Bartlmä) is a small tow ...
. The entire municipality is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
Brezje was attested in written sources as ''Pirkch'' in 1436. The name of the settlement is shared with several other places in Slovenia and is derived from the Slovene common noun ''brezje'' '
birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 ...
grove', referring to the local vegetation.
References
External links
Brezje on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto
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