Mislinjska Dobrava () is a settlement in the

City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec The City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec (; sl, Mestna občina Slovenj Gradec) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Slovenj Gradec. It is part of the historic Styria region, and since 2005 it has be ...

in northern

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. It lies in the Mislinja Valley southeast 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

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Dobrava'' to ''Mislinjska Dobrava'' in 1953.

Mass grave

Mislinjska Dobrava is the site of a

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may 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 execution, although an exact ...

from the end of the Second World War. The Mislinjska Dobrava Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Mislinjska Dobrava) is located in a small woods in the middle of the settlement, from the road from Mislinja to Slovenj Gradec. It contains the remains of Croatian soldiers or

Cossacks The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...

killed in May 1945.

Cultural heritage

Remains of the

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

from Celea to

Virunum Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Virunum may also have been the name of the older Celtic-Roman settlement on the hilltop of Magdalensberg nearby. Virunum (''Viru ...

, which ran through the Mislinja Valley, have been identified near the settlement.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 7954

Airport

Slovenj Gradec Airport is a small airport located in the northern part of Mislinjska Dobrava.

References

External links

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