Medlog () is a settlement in the
City Municipality of Celje
The City Municipality of Celje (; sl, Mestna občina Celje) is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is the city of Celje, a regional center of Styria.
Settlements
In addition to the municipal seat of Celje, the municipalit ...
in eastern
Slovenia
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. It lies on the western outskirts of
Celje
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. The grass
runway
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of
Celje Airport
Celje Airport ( sl, Letališče Celje or ''Letališče Levec'') is a sport airport, located to the north of Levec near Celje in Slovenia
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is located in the western part of the settlement. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Savinja Statistical Region
The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly com ...
.
Mass graves
Medlog is the site of three known
mass graves
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of executi ...
from the period immediately after the Second World War. They are part of the 25
mass graves in the Celje area. The Slovenijales Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Slovenijales) lies south of the settlement, in a former trench used to store gasoline barrels near the Medlog Airport and where the Slovenijales factory and Avto Celje premises now stand. It contains the remains of a large number of Croatian civilians murdered in May and June 1945. The Tirdrož Mass Grave (), also known as the Tirgut Mass Grave (), is located between Ložnica Creek to the north, a water pumping station to the west, and the main road to the south. It measures and contains the remains of Croatian refugees murdered in May 1945. The Lipovšek Meadow Mass Grave (), also known as the Šef Woods Mass Grave (), is a former antitank trench in the northeast part of the settlement. It contains the remains of about 400 Croatian civilian refugees in four areas measuring . Human remains were uncovered by the Nivo Celje company during excavation work at the site and disposed of in an unknown manner.
References
External links
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Medlog on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Celje
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