Blanca () is a settlement on the left bank of the
Sava River
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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
Slovenia
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.The area is part of the historical region of
Styria
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. The municipality is now included in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region
The Lower Sava Statistical Region (; until December 31, 2014 ) is a Statistical regions of Slovenia, statistical region in Slovenia. It has good traffic accessibility and is located in the Sava and Krka Valleys, with hilly areas with vineyards and ...
. The settlement includes the neighborhood of Agrež in the west and the hamlets of Suho and Vrhek to the northeast.
The
railway line
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from
Ljubljana
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to
Zagreb
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runs along the left bank of the Sava and there is a small
railway station
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in the settlement.
Name
Blanca was attested in written records in 1309 as ''Blanitz''. The name is derived from ''*Blanica'', a diminutive of the obsolete noun ''*blana'' (cf. Czech ''blana'' 'meadow, pasture', Belarusian ''balona'' 'empty land before a village', Bulgarian ''blana'' 'lawn, meadow'). The name therefore originally refers to the local geography.
History
Prehistoric
burial mounds
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were found in the area in 1892, testifying to early settlement. A school was established in 1874. During the Second World War, a ferry across the Sava in Blanca was used to main contact with
Partisan
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Military
* Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
** Francs-tireurs et partisans, communist-led French anti-fascist resistance against Nazi Germany during WWII
** Ital ...
units in Lower Carniola. A civic center was built in 1949, and a fire station in 1954. The settlement was supplied with running water from the Lopatec Reservoir in 1966.
Hydroelectric Plant
A new
run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant on the Sava was built in the settlement between 2005 and 2008. It has an average yearly capacity of 144 GWh, corresponding to approximately 1% of current electricity production in Slovenia.
Lower Sava Hydroelectric Power Plants Co. official site
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Blanca include:
* Janez Boštjančič (1844–1892), journalistPeople's Hero of Yugoslavia
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Spanish Civil War
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References
External links
Blanca on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Sevnica
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