Šmartno na Pohorju () is a

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in the Pohorje Hills in the

Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica The Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Slovenska Bistrica. Slovenska Bistrica became a municipality in 1994. Settle ...

in northeastern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Martin na Pohorju'' (literally, 'Saint Martin on Pohorje') to ''Šmartno na Pohorju'' in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.

Church

The local

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, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Martin and belongs to the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Archdiocese of Maribor (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Slovenia. Its episcopal see is Maribor. History * 1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant * ...

. It dates to the early 13th century.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3169

References

External links

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Šmartno na Pohorju on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica {{Slovenska-Bistrica-geo-stub