The Tezno District (; sl, Mestna četrt Tezno, german: Thesen) is a city district of the

City Municipality of Maribor The City Municipality of Maribor (), also the City of Maribor ( sl, Mestna občina Maribor, acronym MOM), is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The population of the municipali ...

in northeastern

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 ...

. In 2014, the district had a population of 11,732. After World War II, a large trench in Tezno became a major mass grave, which was later investigated by the

Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia ( sl, Komisija za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč) is an office of the Slovenian government whose task is to find and document mass grave sites from the Second World War and the period imm ...

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* Districts of the City Municipality of Maribor {{Slovenia-geo-stub