Paška Vas (; ) is a settlement on the right bank of the
Paka River in the
Municipality of Šmartno ob Paki
The Municipality of Šmartno ob Paki (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šmartno ob Paki. Šmartno ob Paki became a municipality in 1994.
Settlements
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in northern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
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. The entire 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 ...
.
A 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 ...
in the settlement containing a statue of
Saint Mark
Mark the Evangelist ( Koinē Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: ''Mârkos''), also known as John Mark ( Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννης Μᾶρκος, romanized: ''Iōánnēs Mârkos;'' Aramaic'': ܝܘܚܢܢ, romanized: Yōḥannān'') or Saint Ma ...
dates to the last quarter of the 19th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 28867
References
External links
Paška Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šmartno ob Paki
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