Domanjševci (; in older sources also ''Domanjšovci'',Vengušt, Jernej. 1919. ''Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom.'' Radgona, p. 5.
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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 ...

in the

Municipality of Šalovci The Municipality of Šalovci (; sl, Občina Šalovci) is a municipality in the traditional region of Prekmurje in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šalovci. Šalovci became a municipality in 1994. Settlements I ...

in the

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur R ...

region of

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, right on the border with

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

. There are two churches in the settlement. The

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church is built on a small hill southwest of the settlement in the middle of a small

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

and is dedicated to Saint Martin. It is a single-

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

brick building with a Romanesque

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dating to the 13th century. It was originally dedicated to

Saint Wenceslas Wenceslaus I ( cs, Václav ; c. 907 – 28 September 935 or 929), Wenceslas I or ''Václav the Good'' was the Duke ('' kníže'') of Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his younger ...

. The

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church in the settlement was built in 1902 in a

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style. Its designer was the architect Alojz Kleiber.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference numbers 119 Saint Martin's Church and 4147 Lutheran Church The poet, writer, and teacher

István Szijjártó István Szijjártó ( sl, Števan Sijarto) ( – 10 September 1833) was a Slovene Lutheran teacher and poet in Hungary. He was born in Večeslavci (Prekmurje), near the Styrian border. His father was Iván Szijjártó, a Slovene peasant. Sz ...

lived and died in the village.

References

External links

Domanjševci on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šalovci {{Šalovci-geo-stub