Vir pri Stični () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Ivančna Gorica
The Municipality of Ivančna Gorica (; sl, Občina Ivančna Gorica) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Ivančna Gorica. Ivančna Gorica became a municipa ...
in central
Slovenia. It lies southeast of
Stična
Stična (; in older sources also ''Zatičina'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 102–103. german: Sittich) is a village in the Munic ...
in the historical region of
Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Vir'' to ''Vir pri Stični'' in 1953.
Cultural heritage
A
Late Bronze Age to
Early Iron Age hill fort with its associated
burial ground
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
of over 130
burial mounds has been identified near the settlement.
References
External links
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Vir pri Stični on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica
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