Neverke () is a
village
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west of
Pivka
Pivka (, german: St. Peter in Krain, it, San Pietro del Carso) is a small town in Slovenia in the Pivka Basin in the Karst region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Pivka. It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola.
Name
Pivka wa ...
in the
Inner Carniola
Inner Carniola ( sl, Notranjska; german: Innerkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the ...
region of
Slovenia
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.
Name
Neverke was attested in written sources in 1763–67 as ''Na Verscze'', ''Navershze'', and ''Versecz''. The 18th-century transcriptions of the name indicate that they are a distorted form of the fused prepositional phrase ''*na Vršce'' 'on the small peak', whereas today's form of the name may be derived via Italian from the phrase ''*na Vrhe'' 'on the peak'. In both cases, the likely references is Vrhe Hill () immediately east of the village.
History
The Italian authorities built extensive military housing in Neverke in 1933 to maintain soldiers and workers engaged in producing gunpowder and filling munitions with gunpowder. During the Second World War, after the
Italian capitulation
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 and made public on 8 September between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies during World War II.
It was signed by Major General Walter Bedell Smith for the Allies and Brig ...
in 1943, German forces took over the site. The Germans withdrew in spring 1944, and the site was used intermittently by the sapper squad of the
Partisan
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Military
* Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon
* Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
Films
* ''Partisan'' (film), a 2015 Australian film
* ''Hell River'', a 1974 Yugoslavian film also know ...
9th Corps, which destroyed the rail lines between Pivka and Rijeka and between Pivka and Trieste. After the war, the buildings were eventually taken over by the Kras poultry farm, which was established in 1959.
Church
The local church in the settlement is dedicated to
Saint Anthony the Hermit and belongs to the
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Košana.
Koper Diocese list of churches
References
External links
Neverke on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Pivka
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