Drnovo ( or ; german: Dernowo
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 74.](_blank)
) is a
village
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south of
Leskovec in the
Municipality of Krško
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in eastern
Slovenia
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. It lies just north of the
motorway
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from
Ljubljana
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During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
to
Zagreb
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. The area is part of the traditional 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 n ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region
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.
The local
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
is dedicated to
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
and belongs to the Parish of
Leskovec pri Krškem. It is a
Baroque building from the 17th century. Its
belfry was made higher in 1907.
History
Neviodunum
Drnovo is the site of the
Ancient Roman town of Neviodunum. It was a settlement of the
Celtic tribe
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
** Proto-Celtic language
*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
Latobici
The Latobici or Latovici (Gaulish: ''Latobicoi'') were a Celtic tribe dwelling in Pannonia Superior, around present-day Drnovo (Slovenia), during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as ''Latovici'' by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Λατόβικ ...
and in AD 79 it was granted
municipal rights
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and became ''Municipium Flavium Latobicorum Neviodunum''. It had an excellent location as a river port on the
Sava River along the main
Roman road connecting
Emona
Emona (early gkm, Ἤμονα) or Aemona (short for ) was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Ljubljanica river came closest to Castle Hill, and
Siscia. The settlement was abandoned in the late 4th or early 5th century. Remains of the settlement, the port, roads, and
thermae
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have been
excavated and are now an
open-air museum
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Definition
Open air is “the unconfined atmosphere ...
.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 128
References
External links
*
Drnovo on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Krško
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