Nevlje (; german: Neul''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 28.) is a settlement on the Nevljica River in the

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in the

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region of

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. It is located approximately from Kamnik.

Name

Nevlje was first attested in 1287 as ''villa de Nawel'' (and as ''Newel'' in 1288 and ''Newla'' in 1498). It is believed to be derived from the plural

demonym A demonym (; ) or gentilic () is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place (hamlet, village, town, city, region, province, ...

''*Nev(ь/ъ)ľane'' or ''*Neveľane''. The origin of the name is unclear, but may be derived from the Slavic personal name ''*Neveľь'', ''*Neveľa'', or ''*Nevoľa''. Some pseudoetymologies claim that the name is related the Slovene common noun ''navje'' 'cemetery'.Prostovoljno gasilsko društvo Nevlje: Zgodovina kraja Nevlja (Nevlje Volunteer Fire Department: History of Nevlje)
In the past the German name was ''Neul''.

History

Nevlje is among the oldest settlements in the Kamnik area. A Negau helmet from the

Hallstatt period The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European culture of Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries B ...

(Early Bronze Age) was discovered in Nevlje in 1928. Kužna Hill is located above the village. Its name probably means the place where people with the

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were living. In 1563, an

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable di ...

hospital operated in Nevlje.

Archaeological site

In March and April 1938, an almost complete skeleton of a 40-year-old

woolly mammoth The woolly mammoth (''Mammuthus primigenius'') is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with '' Mammuthus s ...

(''Mammuthus primigenius''), an antler of a

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

(''Rangifer tarandus''), an

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of a

polar fox The Arctic fox (''Vulpes lagopus''), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. It is well adapted to living in ...

(''Alopex lagopus''), and a small

Paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

tool made of almost black flint were found in Nevlje by workers who built a bridge across the Nevljica and deepened its bed. It was the first discovered

hunting settlement in the territory of the present Slovenia and was dated to around 20,000 BP, the time of the

Gravettian The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unified, and had mostly disappeared by ...

culture in the latter half of the Würm period (the last glaciation period). The excavations attracted domestic and international public attention, researchers, and politicians. A bridge built at this spot was named the Mammoth Bridge ( sl, Mamutov most). A

pollen analysis Palynology is the "study of dust" (from grc-gre, παλύνω, palynō, "strew, sprinkle" and ''-logy'') or of "particles that are strewn". A classic palynologist analyses particulate samples collected from the air, from water, or from deposits ...

was performed at the site for the first time by Ana Tregubov-Budnar, the first Slovenian palinologist. In 1944, she attributed the pollen to the end of an

interglacial period An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial, interglaciation) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene in ...

. Later, it was shown by

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that it actually belongs to the

Würm glaciation The Würm glaciation or Würm stage (german: Würm-Kaltzeit or ''Würm-Glazial'', colloquially often also ''Würmeiszeit'' or ''Würmzeit''; cf. ice age), usually referred to in the literature as the Würm (often spelled "Wurm"), was the last g ...

. The mammoth skeleton is one of the best preserved in Europe and has become the symbol of the

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, where it is now on display.

Church

Saint George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldie ...

's Parish Church is located in Nevlje and is the oldest in the region. Until 1232, it was the seat of the Parish of Kamnik. In the middle of the 20th century, the architecture of the church was enriched by

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, who designed its baptistry.

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