Dobruška Vas (; sl, Dobruška vas) is a
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 Škocjan
The Municipality of Škocjan (; sl, Občina Škocjan), established in October 1994, is a Municipalities of Slovenia, municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is Škocjan, Ško ...
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 ...
. Within the municipality, it belongs to the Village Community of Grmovlje. It lies on the regional road leading south from Škocjan to
Šentjernej. The
A2 motorway runs just east of the settlement. 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
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
The Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region ( sl, Jugovzhodna Slovenija statistična regija) is a statistical region in southeast Slovenia. It is the largest statistical region. The development of this region is largely the result of industry (the au ...
. The settlement includes the hamlets of Cesta and Zatreb.
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 482.]
Name
The name ''Dobruška vas'' is derived from a possessive form of the
hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...
''*Dobruš(a)'' or ''*Dobrux(a)''. Like similar place names (e.g., ''
Dobruša'', and also ''
Dobruševo'' in Macedonia), it thus refers to an early inhabitant of the place.
History
Early settlement of Dobruška Vas is attested by Roman artifacts that have been found in the area. During the Second World War, part of the village was burned by German forces on May 14, 1944.
Mass grave
Dobruška Vas is the site of a
mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...
from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Dobruška Vas Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Dobruška vas) is located about east of the settlement alongside a field, 10 m from the left bank of Mlaka Creek and above the bridge over the creek. It contains the remains of up to 62 Croatian refugees murdered at the site on the evening of May 17, 1945. The local people buried their bodies in two trenches at the site.
Murder of two Romani women
On June 3, 2005 two Roma women in Dobruška Vas were murdered in a racist attack, when a hand grenade was thrown into their bedroom. Three right-wing extremists were arrested and convicted of the crime. They appealed, however, and the trial is still ongoing.
Bombašem tokrat zapor, pritožbe na Vrhovno sodišče. 2011. ''Dolenjskilist.si'' (March 17).
References
External links
Dobruška Vas at Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Škocjan
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