Pusti Gradec (, often ''Pusti Gradac'', german: Oedengraz''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 7.) is a small settlement east of

Dragatuš Dragatuš (, german: Dragatusch''Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung'', no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 48.) is a village south of Črnomelj in the White Carniola area of southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower ...

in the Municipality of Črnomelj in the

White Carniola White Carniola ( sl, Bela krajina; german: Weißkrain or ''Weiße Mark'') is a traditional region in southeastern Slovenia on the border with Croatia. Due to its smallness, it is often considered a subunit of the broader Lower Carniola region, alth ...

area of southeastern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. The local

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

is dedicated to All Saints 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 Dragatuš. It is a single-

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d building with a three-sided

apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...

. The date 1638 appears on its

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.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 1798

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Pusti Gradec on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Črnomelj {{Crnomelj-geo-stub