Strelac () is a small village in the

Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice The Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice () is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šmarješke Toplice. The municipality is now included in the Southeast ...

in southeastern

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. It lies in the historical region of

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just south of Šmarjeta. The municipality is now included in the

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Mass grave

Strelac is the site of a

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...

from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Jelenca Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Jelenca) is located southwest of the settlement in a sinkhole in the woods. It contains the remains of six unidentified victims murdered after the war.

References

External links

Strelac on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice {{SmarjeskeToplice-geo-stub