Dolenja Vas pri Polici (; sl, Dolenja vas pri Polici, german: Niederdorf
) is a small settlement north of
Polica in the
Municipality of Grosuplje
The Municipality of Grosuplje (; sl, Občina Grosuplje) is a municipality in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Grosuplje. It lies just south of the capital Ljubljana in the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is ...
in central
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Dolenja vas'' to ''Dolenja vas pri Polici'' in 1953. In the past the German name was ''Niederdorf''.
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 ...
south of the village dates to 1875.
References
External links
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Dolenja Vas pri Polici on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Grosuplje
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