Rošpoh (; in older sources also ''Rožpoh'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 204. german: Rossbach) is a

dispersed settlement A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world. Typically, there are a numb ...

north of Maribor in northeastern

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. The largest part of the settlement belongs to the

City Municipality of Maribor The City Municipality of Maribor (), also the City of Maribor ( sl, Mestna občina Maribor, acronym MOM), is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The population of the municipali ...

. The remaining part of the settlement was split from the village in 1982 and now belongs to the

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Name

Rošpoh was attested in written sources in 1250 as ''am Rosspach'' (and as ''im Rospach'' in 1352, ''am Rosspach'' again in 1418, and ''am Rospach'' in 1445). The name is originally a

hydronym A hydronym (from el, ὕδρω, , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As ...

that was transferred to the adjacent settlement. It is derived from the

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compound ''Rosbach'' (from ''ros'' 'horse' + ''bach'' 'creek'). In the past the German name was ''Rossbach''.

References

External links

Rošpoh on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Maribor {{Maribor-geo-stub