Sora (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 110.) is a village in the

Municipality of Medvode The Municipality of Medvode (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Upper Carniola in north-central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Medvode. Medvode became a municipality in 1994. Settlements In addition to the ...

in the

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region of

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. It includes the hamlets of Farjevec (or Pri Farjevcu) and Komarnija.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 383.

Geography

Sora is a clustered village at the foot of Hom Hill (718 m) on an alluvial fan above Ločnica Creek, where it exits a narrow valley in the hills to the southwest. The soil is loamy and fields lie below the village, extending toward the Sora River to the north. The surrounding hills are karstified and there is a large cave on Kravjek Hill.

Name

Sora was attested in written sources in 1154 as ''Zower'' (and as ''Ceur'' in 1161 and ''Zevra'' in 1252). The name is derived from the Sora River and comes from the archaic Slovene common noun ''sǫ̋vьra'' from the verb ''*sъ-vьrěti'' 'to pour out, boil over', referring to a flashy stream, and presumably turbulent confluences along the course of the river. In the past the German name was ''Zaier''.

History

The remnants of a Roman building and graves have been found between Sora and neighboring Rakovnik, attesting to early settlement in the area. A regular school was established in Sora in 1874, and the school building was remodeled in 1907. A catchment basin for water was built below the church in 1911 at the initiative of the writer

Fran Saleški Finžgar Fran Saleški Finžgar (February 9, 1871 – June 2, 1962) was perhaps the most popular Slovenes, Slovene folk writer. He is particularly known for his novels and short stories, although he also wrote poems and plays. Life Fran Saleški Finžgar ...

. Engagements in the area during the Second World War are commemorated by a stone commemorating a fallen female

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along the road to Topol pri Medvodah and a monument with the names of seven fallen Partisans next to the road along Ločnica Creek. After the Second World War, the local school was named after the communist people's hero Avgust Barle. This name was removed in 1992, when the school was renamed the Sora Branch School ().

Church

The

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in the settlement is dedicated to

Saint Stephen Stephen (; ) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity."St ...

().Družina RC Church in Slovenia journal site
/ref> A church already stood at the location in the 13th century and its parish priest was cited in a document from 1295. The church was remodeled several times, and in 1882 a new church was built in the pseudo-Gothic style. The church contains a painting of Saint Stephen by Valentin Metzinger (1699–1759).

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Sora include: * Jožef Bevk (1811–1860), journalist and writer *

(1871–1962), writer * Leopold Podlogar (1878–1925), historian * Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819), poet

References

External links

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Sora on Geopedia
{{Medvode Populated places in the Municipality of Medvode