Žaga, Bovec
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Žaga (; ) is a settlement on the right bank of the Soča River in the
Municipality of Bovec The Municipality of Bovec ( or ; ) is a municipality in northwestern Slovenia. Its center is the town of Bovec. , its mayor is Valter Mlekuž. Geography The northern parts of the municipality up the Trenta Valley to the peaks of Mts. Mangart, J ...
in the
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region of
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. The turn for the road to Resia in
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is in the middle of the settlement.


Geography

Boka Falls Boka is a waterfall in the western part of Slovenia, near the Soča River. It begins at a karst spring and has two stages, of which the first is high and wide, and the second is high. Overview The waterfall is supplied by a karst springK ...
is a waterfall on Boka Creek in the northeast part of the settlement. There are also two other waterfalls on Globoka Creek in the western part of the settlement.


Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Žaga include: * Oskar Hudales (1905–1968), writer, translator, and teacher * Anton Ocvirk (1907–1980), literary historian * Stane Žagar (1896–1942), communist activist and
people's hero of Yugoslavia The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; , ), was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav gallantry medal, the ...


References


External links

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Žaga on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Bovec {{Bovec-geo-stub