Čanje () is a settlement in the hills above Blanca in the

Municipality of Sevnica The Municipality of Sevnica () is a municipality along the Sava and the Mirna Rivers in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Sevnica. Today it is part of the Lower Sava Statistical Region. It is the 12th-largest mu ...

in central

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. The area is part of the historical region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

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Churches

There are two churches in the settlement. One on a hill just southwest of the hamlet of Gradec is dedicated to

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() and dates to the 13th century with a 19th-century

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. The second stands on Gradec Hill () east of the hamlet of Brinje. It dates to the 14th century and is dedicated to the

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. Both belong to the parish of Sevnica.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Čanje include: * Mavricij Teraš ( sl) (1889–1960), theologian''Slovenski biografski leksikon'': Teraš Mavricij.

References

External links

Čanje on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Sevnica {{Sevnica-geo-stub