Selo pri Robu () is a settlement on the

Rute Plateau The Rute Plateau (; sl, Rutarska planota, also simply ''Rute'') is a karst limestone plateau in Lower Carniola, Slovenia with an area of about . The forested ridges on the plateau run in a northwest-southeast direction (known as the Dinaric di ...

( sl, Rutarska planota) in the hills southwest of Rob in the

Municipality of Velike Lašče The Municipality of Velike Lašče (; sl, Občina Velike Lašče) is a municipality in Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Velike Lašče. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central ...

in central

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. The municipality is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Selo'' to ''Selo pri Robu'' in 1953.

History

The area of Selo pri Robu was already settled in antiquity. A Roman road connecting

Emona Emona (early gkm, Ἤμονα) or Aemona (short for ) was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Ljubljanica river came closest to Castle Hill,

and the

Lož Valley Lož (, german: Laas, it, Olisa) is a settlement in the Municipality of Loška Dolina in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Name Originally the settlement that is now Stari Trg pri Ložu was called ''Lož'', but in 1341 a new settlement was b ...

( sl, Loška dolina) ran past the village. In late antiquity it was protected by a 328 m defensive wall with towers. The village was heavily affected by the Second World War. On 24 July 1942, Italian forces burned the mill and sawmill on Iška Creek in the hamlet of Predgozd, and two days later, three villagers were shot at Big Peak (, 812 m) on the Bloke Plateau south of the village. The Krašovec family was murdered by Italian forces on 12 September that year. In 1943, three houses in the village were burned on 31 January, and additional houses on 4 August. Selo pri Robu is the site of a

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from the Second World War inventoried by the

Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia ( sl, Komisija za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč) is an office of the Slovenian government whose task is to find and document mass grave sites from the Second World War and the period imm ...

. The Janez Klančar Grave ( sl, grob Janeza Klančarja) is located in the woods northwest of the village, next to the Romani Mass Grave in neighboring

Bukovec Bukovec may refer to: Places Croatia *Bukovec, a village in the municipality of Selnica, Međimurje County * Bukovec Zelinski, a village, Zagreb County * Mali Bukovec, a municipality and village, Varaždin County * Veliki Bukovec, a municipality ...

, and is marked with a cross. Klančar was a farmer from Mohorje and was abducted from his home by the

Slovene Partisans The Slovene Partisans, formally the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Slovenia, (NOV in POS) were part of Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement Jeffreys-Jones, R. (2013): ''In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western ...

on September 27, 1942.

Cultural heritage

There is a small 18th-century

chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ...

at the crossroads at the centre of the settlement.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 26298

References

External links

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Selo pri Robu on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Velike Lašče {{VelikeLasce-geo-stub