Polica (; german: Politz) is a settlement in the

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in central

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. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

Geography

Polica includes the hamlets of Bliska Vas ( sl, Bliska vas), Žabja Vas (), Hrib, and Goričane.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 144–145.

Name

Polica was first attested in written sources in 1301 as ''Pöltz'' or ''Poliz'' (and as ''Politz'' in 1372 and ''Policz'' in 1475). The name is derived from the Slovene common noun ''polica'' 'terraced earth between two embankments', thus referring to the local geography. In the past the German name was ''Politz''.

History

A school was established in Polica in 1873. During the Second World War, a regional committee of the

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was established in the village on 6 January 1942. A shoe-making and tailoring workshop for the Partisans operated in the village. On 20 March 1943 the bodies of five murdered men, known as the

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and Bizovik victims, were discovered buried in Krčmar's Woods ( sl, Krčmarjeva hosta) north of the hamlet of Bliska Vas. The Partisans burned the school building and rectory in Polica in 1944.

Mass graves

Polica is the site of two known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Bliska Vas nad Polico Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Bliska vas nad Polico) lies on a wooded slope below a path from the hamlet of Bliska Vas to Andrejc Hill. It contains the remains of Slovene civilians from the area and from the Moste neighborhood of Ljubljana that were murdered in the vicinity of an encampment of the

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Lower Carniola Detachment. The Polica Mass Grave () lies in the Bukovje Woods on the western slope of Vrh and Log hills, north of the hamlet of Bliska Vas, near the former encampment of the 2nd Unit of the Partisan Lower Carniola Detachment. It contains the remains of over 20 Slovene civilians from Ljubljana that were accused of espionage and liquidated.

Church

The

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in the village is dedicated to Saint James ( sl, sveti Jakob) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana. It is a 14th-century

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building that was restyled and rebuilt in 1797. The church stands in the hamlet of Hrib and was first mentioned in written sources in 1372. The furnishings of the church mainly date from the 19th century.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Polica include: * Louis Šeme (born Alojzij Šeme) (1901–1983),"Ohio, Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VKG4-4D2 : accessed 06 Nov 2012)
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References

External links

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Polica on Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Polica, Grosuplje Populated places in the Municipality of Grosuplje