Kromberk (; it, Moncorona, german: Cronberg bei Görz) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Nova Gorica The City Municipality of Nova Gorica (; sl, Mestna občina Nova Gorica) is a municipality in the traditional region of the Slovene Littoral in western Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica became a munic ...

in western

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. Together with its two satellite settlements of Ajševica and Loke, it forms one of the four major suburbs of

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(the others being

Solkan Solkan ( or ; it, Salcano, german: link=no, Sollingen or ''Salcano'') is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia, at the border with Italy. Although it forms a single urban area with the city of ...

Rožna Dolina Rožna Dolina (; it, Valdirose, german: link=no, Rosenthal) is one of the four suburbs of the town of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (the others being Solkan, Kromberk, and Pristava). It is on the border with Italy. Before 1947, it used to be ...

, and Pristava).

Name

Kromberk was attested in written sources circa 1200 as ''In Lite'' and circa 1370 as ''in Strania''. During the Middle Ages, the settlement was known as ''Stran'' or ''Stranje'' 'side (of a hill), ridge', reflected in the medieval transcriptions (

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''lite'' 'ridge, (mountain) side', Slovene ''stran''). The current Slovene name is derived from the noble surname ''Kronberg'', which is the German version of the Italian surname ''Coronini''. The Italian surname was interpreted as derived from ''corona'' 'crown' and then translated as Middle High German ''krôn(e)'', to which the suffix ''-berc, -berg'' 'mountain' was added, which is frequent in names of castles and the settlements surrounding them.

History

In the 19th century, a Friulian minority lived in Kromberk, but have almost all been assimilated since. According to the last Austrian census of 1910, 99.8% of the population spoke Slovene as their native language. The historical Friulian presence has left traces in the local dialect of Slovene, as well as in the local

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, customs, and cuisine.

Main sights

Kromberk Castle is located near the settlement. The

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castle from the 17th century is named after the noble family Coronini Cronberg of

Gorizia and Gradisca The Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (german: Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca; it, Principesca Contea di Gorizia e Gradisca; sl, Poknežena grofija Goriška in Gradiščanska), historically sometimes shortened to and spelled " ...

. The

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in the settlement is dedicated to the Virgin Mary Comforter of the Afflicted and belongs to the

Diocese of Koper ) , cocathedral = Co-Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Nova Gorica() , area_km2 = 4,386 , parishes = 100 , population = 266,403 , population_as_of = 2013 , catholics = 181,230 , catholics_percent= 68 , pope ...

.Roman Catholic Diocese of Koper List of Churches May 2008

References

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Populated places in the City Municipality of Nova Gorica {{NovaGorica-geo-stub