The Municipality of Šentrupert ( sl, Občina Šentrupert) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in southeastern

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. The seat of the municipality is the town of

Šentrupert Šentrupert (; german: Sankt Ruprecht''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 traditional Lower Carniola region in s ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included in the

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. It was established on 14 June 2006 with the exclusion of the former Local Community Šentrupert ( Slovene: ''Krajevne skupnosti Šentrupert'') from the Municipality of Trebnje. On 15 April 2010, the municipal councilors adopted the coat of arms and the flag proposed by Aleksander Hribovšek. It has historical basis on the coat of arms of

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which was posthumously, centuries later, fictitiously assigned to her as well as the coat of arms of the Barbo von Waxenstein family. It consists of a

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on a blue field holding a silver crescent in its right paw.

Settlements

In addition to the municipal seat of Šentrupert, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Bistrica * Brinje * Dolenje Jesenice * Draga pri Šentrupertu * Gorenje Jesenice * Hom * Hrastno * Kamnje * Kostanjevica * Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu * Okrog * Prelesje * Ravne nad Šentrupertom * Rakovnik pri Šentrupertu * Ravnik * Roženberk * Škrljevo * Slovenska Vas * Straža * Trstenik * Vesela Gora * Vrh * Zabukovje * Zaloka

References

External links

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Municipality of Šentrupert on Geopedia

Šentrupert municipal site

2006 establishments in Slovenia {{Šentrupert-geo-stub