Strmica () is a small settlement in the hills west of

Vrhnika Vrhnika (; german: Oberlaibach;''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120. la, Nauportus) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Muni ...

in the

Inner Carniola Inner Carniola ( sl, Notranjska; german: Innerkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the ...

region of

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

Name

The name ''Strmica'' was originally an oronym referring to Strmica Hill (626 m) southwest of the settlement. It probably originally had the form ''*Strьma(ja) gora'' (literally, 'steep mountain') and was later univerbized to ''Strmica'' (literally, 'the steep one').

Mass grave

Strmica 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 Strmica Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče pod Strmico), also known as the Zakovšek Woods below Strmica Mass Grave (), is located southwest of the settlement, at an abandoned lime kiln in a sinkhole next to a dirt road on the southeast slope of Strmica Hill. The grave contained the remains of 12 young men from

Logatec Logatec (; german: Loitsch, it, Longatico) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Logatec. It is located roughly in the centre of Inner Carniola, between the capital Ljubljana and Postojna. The town of Logatec has seen rapi ...

or Rovte that were murdered on June 21, 1945. The remains were exhumed in 1991 and are now at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Ljubljana.

Cultural heritage

A section of a late Roman defense wall known as the ''

Claustra Alpium Iuliarum (Latin for 'Barrier of the Julian Alps'; hereby, the term Julian Alps refers to the wider mountainous and hilly region from the Julian Alps to the Kvarner Gulf) was a defense system within the Roman Empire between Italia and Pannonia that prote ...

'' passes through the southwestern part of Strmica. The remnants of 19 defense towers are visible along the course of the wall. A walking trail called ''Ajdovski zid'' (the Pagan Wall) with information signs has been laid out along the route.

References

External links

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Strmica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Vrhnika {{Vrhnika-geo-stub