Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu ( or ; german: Kleinzirnik''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna.) is a

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in the

Municipality of Šentrupert The Municipality of Šentrupert ( sl, Občina Šentrupert) is a municipality in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šentrupert. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included in t ...

in southeastern

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. It lies in the hills east of Šentrupert just off the road towards Šentjanž in 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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. The settlement includes the hamlets of Stražberk (in older sources also ''Stražberg'', german: Straßberg), Vrhe, and Selo.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Mali Cirnik'' to ''Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu'' in 1955. The name ''Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu'' literally means 'little Cirnik near Šentjanž', distinguishing the village from neighboring

Veliki Cirnik Veliki Cirnik (; german: Großzirnik''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 84.) is a village in the Municipality of Sevnica in east-central ...

(literally, 'big Cirnik'). The name ''Cirnik'' is derived from the Slovene common noun ''cer'' '

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', thus referring to the local vegetation.Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, pp. 89–90. In the past the German name was ''Kleinzirnik''.

References

External links

Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šentrupert {{Šentrupert-geo-stub