Bukovo () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Cerkno The Municipality of Cerkno () is a municipality in the Slovenian Littoral, Littoral region of Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Cerkno. The municipality has around 5,000 people. History Historically, the Cerkno Hills belonged ...

in the traditional

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region of

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Geography

Bukovo is a scattered village along the southwest slope of Mount Kojca () on the saddle between the valleys of the Bača and

Idrijca The Idrijca is a river flowing through the Idrija Hills and Cerkno Hills in Slovenia. It is long. It rises near Vojsko, Idrija, Vojsko, flows towards northeast and after passing through Idrija turns to the northwest. After passing through Spodn ...

rivers. It also includes several hamlets southeast of the village center: Krtečne, Kojca, Selc, Žabže (or Žabče), and Laharn (from north to south). The soil is sandy and marly. The tilled fields lie on steep slopes, which traditionally necessitated carrying the last furrow plowed to the top of the slope by hand, or using oxen or a block-and-tackle system.

History

Kojca is the oldest of the hamlets comprising Bukovo. In 1652 it was mentioned as the seat of a district that also included Bukovo, Krtečne, Žabže, and Selc.Torkar, Silvo. 1991. K zgodovini tolminske vasi Porezen. ''Kronika'' 39(3): 5–8. Most of the hamlet of Selc burned in 1935 because of a lightning strike. During the Second World War, German forces burned two houses and a hayrack in Bukovo and looted the village on November 1, 1943. The hamlet of Žabže was burned on June 10, 1944; during the attack, three men were killed and four women burned to death.

Names

The name ''Bukovo'' is derived from the word ''buk'' '

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'. Like similar names (e.g., ''

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, Bukovec,

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''), it originally referred to the local vegetation. The hamlet of Kojca shares its name with Mount Kojca; the hamlet name is believed to derive from the mountain, presumably derived from ''koza'', meaning 'goat', thus 'goat mountain'. It was attested as ''Cosiza'' in historical sources and is derived via diphthongization and reduction (*''Kozca'' > *''Kojzca'' > ''Kojca'').Torkar, Silvo. 2001. Nekatera aktualna vprašanja poknjiževanja in razknjiževanja zemljepisnih lastnih imen. ''Jezikoslovni zapiski'' 7(1–2): 403–409. The hamlet name ''Žabže'' is a result of reduction. It was attested as ''Sapulsach'' (a locative form) in historical records and is derived from ''*Zapolže'' (> *''Zapuže'' > *''Zapže'' > ''Zabže''). The hamlet name ''Laharn'' is of unclear origin. It is probably not derived from ''Lah'' 'Italian', as claimed by some sources, because old transcriptions (''Lochar'' in 1566 and ''Locar'' in 1600) indicate that the first vowel was originally an ''o''.

Church

The

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in the settlement is dedicated to

Saint Leonard Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Lenart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559) is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, ...

and belongs to the

Koper Koper (; ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, fifth-largest city in Slovenia. Located in the Slovenian Istria, Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, Koper is the main urban center of the Slovene coast. Port of Koper i ...

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. It stands on a small rise west of the village. It was built in the 18th century and consists of an octagonal presbytery walled on three sides, a broad rectangular nave, and a belfry. The furnishings include a 19th-century altar from the workshop in

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. The church is surrounded by a cemetery, which also contains a

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memorial.

Other cultural heritage

There is a Partisan memorial on the main road southeast of the settlement, between the houses at Bukovo no. 33 and 33a. It consists of six upright stone blocks and was designed by Nande Rupnik. It was erected in 1982.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 21002

References

External links

Bukovo on Geopedia
{{Cerkno Populated places in the Municipality of Cerkno