Zaloška Gorica () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Žalec The Municipality of Žalec (; sl, Občina Žalec) is a municipality in Slovenia in the traditional region of Styria. The seat of the municipality is the town of Žalec. The municipality was established in its current form on 7 August 1998, when ...

in east-central

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

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. The

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crosses the territory of the settlement south of the settlement core. When it was being built in 1988, the 17th-century Zalog Mansion ( sl, Dvorec Zalog), which had fallen into disrepair after the Second World War, was demolished. The site with what remains of a park associated with the estate is included in the Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Gorica'' to ''Zaloška Gorica'' in 1953.''Spremembe naselij 1948–95''. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.

References

External links

Zaloška Gorica at Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Žalec {{Žalec-geo-stub