Dragonja Vas (; sl, Dragonja vas, in older sources ''Zdergonja ves'', german: Drasendorf) is a small village in the

Municipality of Kidričevo The Municipality of Kidričevo (; sl, Občina Kidričevo) is a municipality near Ptuj in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kidričevo. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is no ...

in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

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Name

Dragonja Vas was first attested in early sources as ''Zdragona'' or ''Sdragona'' (between 1763 and 1787). The name is derived from a Slavic personal name, either from *''Dragon’a vьsь'' 'Dragonъ's village' or (with dialect ''-o-'' < ''-a-'') from *''Dragan’a vьsь'' 'Draganъ's village'. In either case, both personal names are based on the root *''dôrgъ'' 'dear'.

References

External links

Dragonja Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kidričevo {{Kidričevo-geo-stub