Gmajna () is a

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in the

City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec The Urban Municipality of Slovenj Gradec (; ) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Slovenj Gradec. It is part of the historic Styria region, and since 2005 it has belonged to the NUTS-3 Carinthia St ...

in northern

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. It lies in the hills northwest of the town of

Slovenj Gradec Slovenj Gradec (; '', ''after about 1900 ''Windischgraz'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the centre of the Urban Municipality of Slovenj Gradec. It is part of the historical Styria region, and since 2005 it has belonged to the NUTS-3 C ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. The entire municipality is now included in the

Carinthia Statistical Region The Carinthia Statistical Region () is a statistical region in northern Slovenia along the border with Austria. The region is difficult to access and is poorly connected with the central part of Slovenia. The environment has been strongly affect ...

Name

The name ''Gmajna'' means '

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', referring to land that was jointly owned and used by the village community. The Slovenian common noun ''gmajna'' is a borrowing from

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''gemeine'', with the same meaning, and is found in other Slovene toponyms such as '' Gmajna'' near

Krško Krško (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the City Municipality of Krško. The town lies on the Sava River and on the northwest edge of the Krško Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area is divided between t ...

as well as in the diminutive form '' Gmajnica''.

Unmarked grave

Gmajna is the site of an

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associated with the Second World War. The Sveteč Woods Grave () is located next to an elder tree in the woods south of the house at Bukovska Vas no. 18. It contains the remains of a Croatian soldier.

References

External links

Gmajna on Geopedia
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Slovenj Gradec Slovenj Gradec {{SlovenjGradec-geo-stub