Tomaž nad Vojnikom () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Vojnik in eastern
Slovenia. It lies in the hills east of
Vojnik. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Savinja Statistical Region
The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly com ...
.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Tomaž nad Vojnikom'' (literally, 'Saint Thomas above Vojnik') to ''Tomaž nad Vojnikom'' (literally, 'Thomas above Vojnik') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.
Church
The local
church, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to
Saint Thomas and belongs to the Parish of Vojnik. It was built in a
Neo-Romanesque style in the 1890s on the site of an earlier church first mentioned in written documents dating to the 13th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3501
References
External links
Tomaž nad Vojnikom on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Vojnik
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