The Municipality of Gornji Petrovci (; sl, Občina Gornji Petrovci) is a

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. The seat of the municipality is the town of Gornji Petrovci. The municipality was established in its current form on 3 October 1994, when the former larger Municipality of Murska Sobota was subdivided into nine smaller municipalities. The municipality includes 14 villages, represented in the municipal

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by fourteen simplified blue houses. The shield also includes a heraldic

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holding a golden fish. The municipal holiday is 18 August, chosen as the anniversary of the crash landing of a

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with the

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pioneering

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and Nérée van der Elst in 1934.Gornji Petrovci municipal site
/ref> The majority of the population of the municipality are

Lutherans Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched ...

, making the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci one of the very few Slovenian municipalities with a non-Catholic majority.

Settlements

In addition to the municipal seat of Gornji Petrovci, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Adrijanci * Boreča * Košarovci *

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* Kukeč * Lucova * Martinje * Neradnovci * Panovci * Peskovci * Stanjevci * Šulinci * Ženavlje

References

External links

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Municipality of Gornji Petrovci at GeopediaMunicipality of Gornji Petrovci website
{{Authority control Gornji Petrovci 1994 establishments in Slovenia