Voglarji (; it, Carbonari) is a

dispersed settlement A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world. Typically, there are a numb ...

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

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 ...

. Voglarji includes the hamlets of Zavrh ( it, Savergo) and Cvetrež.

Geography

Voglarji is located on the high

Trnovo Forest Plateau The Trnovo Forest Plateau ( sl, Trnovski gozd) is a karst plateau that constitutes the extreme northwest end of the Dinaric Alps.Perko, Drago, & Milan Orožen Adamič. 1998. ''Slovenija: pokrajine in ljudje''. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 324. ...

( sl, Trnovski gozd), overlooking the

Vipava Valley The Vipava Valley (; sl, Vipavska dolina, german: Wippachtal, it, Valle del Vipacco) is a valley in the Slovenian Littoral, roughly between the village of Podnanos to the east and the border with Italy to the west. The main towns are Ajdovš ...

. The part of the larger plateau known as the Voglarji Plateau ( sl, Voglarska planota) is named after Voglarji.

Mass grave

Voglarji 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. The Cvetrež Shaft Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Brezno za Cvetrežem), also known as the Cvetrež 3 Shaft Mass Grave () is located south of the settlement on the east side of the road to the hamlet of Cvetrež. It contains the remains of

Home Guard Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting w ...

and Italian prisoners of war, and Slovene and Italian civilians murdered in May 1945.

References

External links

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