Dolenja Vas (; ) is a roadside settlement in the

Municipality of Prebold The Municipality of Prebold (; ) is a small municipality in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is Prebold. The municipality lies on the edge of the lower Savinja Valley at the northern edge of the Sava Hills west of Celje. The area is ...

in east-central

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

Savinja Statistical Region The Savinja Statistical Region () is a Statistical regions of Slovenia, statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly compr ...

. There are two small

chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mount ...

s in the settlement. One dates to 1725 and the other was built in the early 20th century.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference numbers ešd 24702 & 24703

Notable residents

Slavko Šlander Slavko Šlander, nom de guerre Aleš (20 June 1909 – 24 August 1941), was a Slovene communist, Partisan, and people's hero. He was born in Dolenja Vas near Prebold, Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary (now part of Slovenia). After he was s ...

References

External links

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Dolenja Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Prebold {{Prebold-geo-stub