Tlake () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Grosuplje The Municipality of Grosuplje (; sl, Občina Grosuplje) is a municipality in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Grosuplje. It lies just south of the capital Ljubljana in the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is ...

in central

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. It lies west of

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on the road to

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. The area is part of the historical region of

Lower Carniola Lower Carniola ( sl, Dolenjska; german: Unterkrain) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region. Geography Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of Ljubljana to the no ...

. The municipality is now included in the

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. The settlement consists of two parts: Spodnje Tlake and Zgornje Tlake (literally, 'lower Tlake' and 'upper Tlake').Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 154.

Name

Tlake was attested in written sources in 1436 as ''Tlakach''. The name ''Tlake'' is derived from the Slovene common noun ''tlaka'', originally referring to voluntary collective labor, and later to

corvée Corvée () is a form of unpaid, forced labour, that is intermittent in nature lasting for limited periods of time: typically for only a certain number of days' work each year. Statute labour is a corvée imposed by a state for the purposes of ...

under feudalism. It refers to a place where collective labor was performed. Because places with this name generally do not lie near old

Roman roads Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

, the suggestion that the name is derived from ''tlak'' ' pavement' is unlikely. Zgornje Tlake was formerly known as ''Sveti Križ'' (literally, 'Holy Cross') after the local church, now located in

History

Tlake was burned by Italian forces on 26 October 1941 in retaliation for a

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attack on a bunker next to the railroad tunnel.

References

External links

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Tlake on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Grosuplje {{Grosuplje-geo-stub