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Eisenkappel-Vellach
Eisenkappel-Vellach ( sl, Železna Kapla-Bela) is a market town in the Völkermarkt District in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. The spa town is the southernmost municipality of Austria, close to the border with Slovenia. Geography The municipal area covers the valley of the Vellach creek, which runs in north–south direction from the heights of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke range down to the Drava River. The Obir massif in the west contains a large dripstone cave system. Two mountain pass roads lead to Slovenia: the Seebergsattel in the southwest connecting it with Jezersko, Slovenia, Jezersko and the less frequented Pavlič Pass in the southeast on the road to Solčava. Eisenkappel-Vellach consists of the main locality Bad Eisenkappel and several smaller settlements located in lateral valleys, subdivided into the ''Katastralgemeinden'' of Bad Vellach (''Bela''), Blasnitzen (''Spodnja Plaznica''), Ebriach (''Obirsko''), Eisenkappel (''Železna Kapla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jezersko, Slovenia
The Municipality of Jezersko (; sl, Občina Jezersko ) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. In 1995, Jezersko became part of Preddvor and became an independent municipality in 1998. Originally located in the historic region of Carinthia, it became part of the Upper Carniola Statistical Region in 2005. The seat of the municipality is the town of Zgornje Jezersko. Jezersko is located in the remote Kokra Valley in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps, south of the Seeberg Saddle mountain pass and the border with the Austrian state of Carinthia. History The name of the area derives from a glacial lake near the settlement of Zgornje Jezersko that started to disappear after an earthquake in 1348. However, it was still described by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor in 1689 as a large lake. It gave the area its German name ''Seeland'' (literally "lake land", first recorded as ''Seelant'' in 1496), and its Slovene equivalent , which came into use at the end of the 19th century. A document from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
