Zvodno () is a settlement in the
City Municipality of Celje
The City Municipality of Celje (; sl, Mestna občina Celje) is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is the city of Celje, a regional center of Styria.
Settlements
In addition to the municipal seat of Celje, the municipalit ...
in eastern
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 ...
. It lies on the southeastern outskirts of
Celje
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Savinja Statistical Region
The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly com ...
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Name
The name ''Zvodno'' is a clipped form from *''Zvodno (selo)'' 'Zvodno village', in which the first element is an adjective derived from ''zvod'' 'confluence', referring to the geographical location of the settlement. Zvodno is located at the confluence of Devil's Creek ( sl, Hudičev potok) and the Ločnica River.
Mass grave
Zvodno is the site of a
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 ...
from the period immediately after the Second World War. It is part of the 25
mass graves in the Celje area. The Pečovnik Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Pečovnik) is located near the house at Zvodno no. 72 in a trench that was later filled and then covered with timber, concrete, and soil, or in a shaft about southwest of this trench. The shaft has a 35% grade and has also been backfilled and leveled with the terrain. The grave contains the corpses of 5,000 to 10,000 people killed or executed in May and June 1945.
References
External links
Zvodno on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Celje
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