Gmajna () is a dispersed settlement in the City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec in northern

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. It lies in the hills northwest of the town of

Slovenj Gradec Slovenj Gradec (; german: Windischgrätz'', ''after about 1900 ''Windischgraz'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec. It is part of the historical Styria region, and since 2005 it has belon ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. The entire municipality is now included in the Carinthia Statistical Region.

Name

The name ''Gmajna'' means ' commons', referring to land that was jointly owned and used by the village community. The Slovenian common noun ''gmajna'' is a borrowing from

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''gemeine'', with the same meaning, and is found in other Slovene toponyms such as '' Gmajna'' near Krško as well as in the diminutive form ''

Gmajnica Gmajnica () is a settlement in the Municipality of Komenda in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Name The name ''Gmajnica'' is a diminutive of the common noun ''gmajna'' 'commons', referring to land that was jointly owned and used by the villa ...

''.

Unmarked grave

Gmajna is the site of an

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associated with the Second World War. The Sveteč Woods Grave ( sl, Grobišče Svetečev gozd) is located next to an

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tree in the woods south of the house at Bukovska Vas no. 18. It contains the remains of a Croatian soldier.

References

External links

Gmajna on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec Slovenj Gradec {{SlovenjGradec-geo-stub