Urh () is a small settlement in the
Pohorje Hills in the
Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Drava Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Urh'' (literally, 'Saint Ulrich') to ''Urh'' (literally, 'Ulrich') in 1952. 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
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to
Saint Ulrich ( sl, sveti Urh) and belongs to the
Parish
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of
Tinje
Tinje is a village development committee in Dolpa District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
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. It dates to the 17th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3446
References
External links
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Populated places in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica
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