Morava (; german: Mrauen''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.) is a village in the

Municipality of Kočevje The Municipality of Kočevje (; sl, Občina Kočevje) is a municipality in southern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Kočevje. Today it is part of the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. In terms of area, it is the larg ...

in southern Slovenia. It was a village settled by

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. During the Second World War its original population was expelled. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. It includes the former hamlet of Mošenik (german: Moschelnik).

Name

Morava was attested in written records in 1498 as ''Hemoraw''. It is believed to be derived from the archaic Slovene common noun ''*morava'' '(wet) meadow'.Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, pp. 269–270. Locally, the village is known as ''Omrava''. The village was known as ''Mrauen'' in German in the past.

Church

The local church, dedicated to the

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, was a

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building. A church already stood at the site at least as early as 1674, based on the date carved into the door casing; however, there was probably already a structure at the location by the end of the 15th century. A 1753 visitation report is the first written mention of a church in the village. The church was a single-nave structure with a flat ceiling and a narrower barrel-vaulted octagonal chancel walled on five sides. There was an open portico in front of the entrance. The church was renovated in 1896, and then remodeled and extended in 1902, when a bell tower with a clock was added, replacing the shingled bell-gable and serving as an entry vestibule. After the Second World War, the church continued to serve as the parish church for the Parish of

Kočevska Reka Kočevska Reka (; german: Rieg''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Sloven ...

. The church was dynamited in 1955 and the ruins were razed in 1956.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2788

References

External links

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Morava on GeopediaPre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in MoravaMorava cemetery
Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje {{Kočevje-geo-stub