Šentjanž ( or ; in older sources also ''Dvor'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 86. ) is a village 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 east-central

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. Traditionally, it belongs to

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. The municipality is now included in the

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Parish church

The local

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from which the settlement gets its name is dedicated to

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(, contracted to ''Šentjanž'') and belongs to the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto The Diocese of Novo Mesto (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Novo Mesto in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Ljubljana in Slovenia. History * April 7, 2006: Established as ...

. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1444 but was totally rebuilt around 1900.

References

External links

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Šentjanž on Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sentjanz, Sevnica Populated places in the Municipality of Sevnica