Ukanc () is a settlement near

Lake Bohinj Lake Bohinj ( sl, Bohinjsko jezero, german: Wocheiner See), covering , is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia. It is located within the Bohinj Valley of the Julian Alps, in the northwestern Upper Carniola region, and part of Triglav National Par ...

in the

Municipality of Bohinj The Municipality of Bohinj ( sl, Občina Bohinj) is a municipality in the Upper Carniola region of northwest Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Bohinjska Bistrica. The municipality had 5,222 inhabitants in 2002. Settlements In addition to t ...

in the

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region of

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. It is southwest of the lake. The majority of buildings in the settlement are either hotels or holiday houses.

Geography

Ukanc is a scattered settlement on a shady rolling plain at the west end of Lake Bohinj at the end of the valley, where mountain walls rise on three sides, closed in by Mount Vogel (), Little Peak (''Mali vrh'', ), Mount Peršivec (), and the Komarča Cliff (). It is connected by road to

Bohinjska Bistrica Bohinjska Bistrica (; german: Wocheiner Feistritz) is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Municipality of Bohinj, in the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia. Geography The settlement lies in the Julian Alps southw ...

. The soil largely consists of alluvium from the Ukanc Suha River (''Ukanška Suha'') and Žagar Gorge (''Žagarjev graben''), as well as the Savica River. In meteorological terms, Ukanc is one of the wettest places in Slovenia.

Name

Ukanc was attested in written sources in 1498 under various names: ''Vkanes'', ''Vkentzi'', ''Vkantzich'', ''Nakonczi'', ''Vkonczich'', and ''Vkansczich''. The name is a fused dialect form of the prepositional phrase ''v konec'' 'to/at the end', referring to its location at the end of the Bohinj Basin.

Cemetery

An Austro-Hungarian cemetery with a wooden chapel is in Ukanc, near the former

Isonzo front The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, sl, soška fronta) were a series of 12 battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I mostly on the territory of present-day Slovenia, and the remaind ...

of the First World War.

Mass grave

Ukanc is the site of a former

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 ...

associated with the Second World War. The Ukanc Mass Grave ( sl, Pri Ukancu) was located on the west shore of Lake Bohinj. It contained the remains of Croatian victims and has been exhumed.

References

External links

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Ukanc on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Bohinj {{Bohinj-geo-stub