Križevci (; , in older sources ''Tótkeresztúr'') is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Municipality of Gornji Petrovci The Municipality of Gornji Petrovci (; ) is a municipality in Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Gornji Petrovci. The municipality was established in its current form on 3 October 1994, when the former larger Municipality of Mu ...

in the

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying betwee ...

region of

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Križevci v Prekmurju'' to ''Križevci'' in 1952. Its name (literally, 'crosses') is derived from a chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross that used to stand in the village, but was pulled down in the late 19th century.

Cultural heritage

There is a large

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

church in the village, built in 1785 and enlarged in 1885. It is one of the earliest Lutheran churches in Prekmurje.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 4151

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Križevci include: * János Berke (1814–1908), writer * Pál Luthár (1839–1919), writer *

Milan Kučan Milan Kučan (; born 14 January 1941) is a Slovenian former politician who served as the first President of Slovenia from 1991 to 2002. Before being president of Slovenia, he was the 13th President of Slovenia#Socialist Republic of Slovenia, Pres ...

(born 1941), the first president of independent Slovenia

References

External links

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Križevci on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci {{GornjiPetrovci-geo-stub