Sošice is a

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in the

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of Žumberak, Zagreb County,

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. According to the 2011 census, it has 77 inhabitants. The name of the settlement was mentioned in written documents for the first time in Bernard's gift book, when the

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

in Kostanjevica na Krki acquired part of the land in Sošice in 1249. The town was an important settlement of the Greek Catholic Church in Croatia.REPORTAŽA o hrvatskim grkokatolicima koji poručuju: Sjetite se i nas, braćo latinska
Slobodna Dalmacija The local parish was formed 1746.Župa Sošice
/ref> The parish home was burnt down along with the local school in 1942 by

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...

. Jazovka, a pit which contained a mass grave from

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, is located near the settlement.

Notable people

* Branko Ve Poljanski

References

Populated places in Zagreb County {{ZagrebCounty-geo-stub