Bolečka Vas (; ) is a settlement on the left bank of the
Dravinja River in the
Municipality of Majšperk
The Municipality of Majšperk (; ) is a municipality in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is Majšperk. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.
Set ...
in northeastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Drava Statistical Region
The Drava Statistical Region () is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorj ...
.
Geography
In the valley, there are mostly fields in the meadows.
Name
Bolečka Vas was attested in written sources in 1440 as ''Welitschezdorff''. The name is derived from the possessive adjective form of the Slavic personal name ''*Boľę'' and thus originally means 'Boľę's village'.
History and economy
Until 1998, the village belonged to the
Municipality of Videm
The Municipality of Videm () is a municipality in Slovenia. It includes part of the flatlands south of Ptuj and extends beyond the Dravinja River into the Haloze Hills to the south. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria. It is n ...
, and later to Majšperk. It belongs to the local community of Dolena. It is the location of the F.D. Rožmarin Dolena folklore society, a womeactive, sports association, ethnographic association, folk singers, and pensioners' association. The main industries are agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, catering, viticulture, and trucking.
References
External links
Bolečka Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Majšperk
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