Hrovača (; german: Krobatsch''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 50.) is a settlement immediately to the southeast of the town of Ribnica in southern

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. It lies just south of the town of Ribnica. The area is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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Name

The name ''Hrovača'' is derived from the word ''Hrvat'' '

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'. Like similar names (e.g., ''

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'' and '' Hrobači'', a hamlet of Dobravlje), it originally referred to medieval Croatian resettlement from the south connected with Ottoman occupation of the central

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. In the past the German name was ''Krobatsch''.

Mass grave

Hrovača is the site of a

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associated with the Second World War. The Bašelj Shaft 2 Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Brezno na Bašlju 2) is located in the woods northeast of Hrovača, about south of Podtabor, on the north slope of Chicken Hill ().

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have reported human remains at the site.

Church

The local

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, built next to the

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on the southern outskirts of the settlement, is dedicated to the

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( sl, sveta Trojica) and belongs to the parish of Ribnica. It was built in 1909 on the site of a 16th-century church originally dedicated to Saint James.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2221

References

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Populated places in the Municipality of Ribnica {{Ribnica-geo-stub