Zapotok (; german: Sapotok
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 116.]) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the hills south of
Ig in central
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
. The entire
Municipality of Ig
The Municipality of Ig (; sl, Občina Ig) is a municipality in central Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Ig. It was formed in 1995 from parts of the Municipality of Vič–Rudnik, until then one of the five municipalities that formed the ...
is part of the traditional region of
Inner Carniola and is now included in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
History
During the Second World War, Italian forces burned the village on March 19, 1942.
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 440.] On July 23, 1942, Italian forces shot fourteen men as hostages in Zapotok; they are all buried at the cemetery on Kurešček Hill in
Visoko
Visoko ( sr-cyrl, Високо, ) is a city located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality had a population of 39,938 inhabitants with 11,205 livi ...
. After the war, a collective farm was established in Zapotok. It was initially used to raise cattle, then to produce plastic for a year, then converted into a factory for wooden ware, and finally into a poultry feedlot.
Mass grave
Zapotok is the site of a
mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Zapotok Narrow Shaft Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Ozko brezno pri Zapotoku), also known as the Viper Cave Mass Grave (), is located on the wooded slope of a steep valley south of the road between Zapotok and
Četež pri Turjaku
Četež pri Turjaku () is a settlement in the hills west of Turjak in the Municipality of Velike Lašče in Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region
The ...
. It contains the remains of unknown victims.
References
External links
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Zapotok on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ig
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