Goriška Vas pri Škocjanu (; sl, Goriška vas pri Škocjanu) is a small

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 to ...

in the

Municipality of Škocjan The Municipality of Škocjan (; sl, Občina Škocjan), established in October 1994, is a Municipalities of Slovenia, municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is Škocjan, Ško ...

in southeastern

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. Within the municipality, it belongs to the Village Community of Zagrad. The area is part of the historical 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 no ...

. The municipality is now included in the

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Goriška vas'' to ''Goriška vas pri Škocjanu'' in 1953.

Church

The local

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is dedicated to Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus and belongs to the

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Škocjan. It is a medieval building that was restyled in the

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in the first half of the 18th century.

References

External links

Goriška Vas pri Škocjanu on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Škocjan {{Škocjan-geo-stub