Slape () is a settlement on the Dravinja River in the Municipality of Majšperk in northeastern Slovenia. There is also a dam and the only mill in the municipality. The area is part of the traditional region of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

Drava Statistical Region The Drava Statistical Region ( sl, Podravska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course thro ...

. In 1986 traces of a

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

Early Iron Age settlement were discovered in the area.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 6476

References

External links

Slape on Geopedia
{{Majšperk-geo-stub Populated places in the Municipality of Majšperk