Dole (; )
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 124.] is a settlement in the hills east of
Idrija
Idrija (, in older sources ''Zgornja Idrija''; , ) is a town in western Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Idrija. Located in the traditional region of the Slovene Littoral and in the Gorizia Statistical Region, it is notable for it ...
in the traditional
Inner Carniola
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region of
Slovenia
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.
It includes the formerly independent settlement of
Črna, which was annexed in 1964.
Name
Dole was attested in historical sources as ''Dolech'' in 1500. Like related names (e.g., ''
Dol'', ''
Dolje'', and ''
Dolič''), the name is derived from the common noun ''dol'' 'small valley', referring to a local geographical feature.
Geography
Dole consists of clusters of houses and various isolated farms along the road from Idrija to
Medvedje Brdo. The landscape around the hamlet of Dolenje Dole has rolling terrain with tilled fields and small meadows, and the land around the hamlet of Gorenje Dole has sinkholes and an intermittent spring.
In the northern part of the village's territory, just west of the neighboring village of
Ravne pri Žireh
Ravne pri Žireh () is a small settlement in the hills south of Žiri in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia
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, there is a geological curiosity known as Tomaž's Table (). It consists of a block of dolomitized limestone on which a slab of the same material was deposited; the slab is about thick and is estimated to weigh .
A similar formation, known as the Little Stone Table (), is located about to the southeast.
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External links
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Dole on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Idrija
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