Podgaj, Šentjur
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Podgaj () is a small settlement south of Ponikva in the
Municipality of Šentjur The Municipality of Šentjur (), named Municipality of Šentjur pri Celju () until 2002, is a municipality in eastern Slovenia. The town of Šentjur is the seat of the municipality. With an area of it is one of the larger municipalities in Slove ...
in eastern
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. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included in the
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, which is in the Slovenian portion of the historical
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.


Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Ožbalt'' (literally, 'Saint Oswald') to ''Podgaj'' (literally, 'below the grove') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.Urbanc, Mimi, & Matej Gabrovec. 2005. Krajevna imena: poligon za dokazovanje moči in odraz lokalne identitete. ''Geografski vestnik'' 77(2): 25–43.


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Podgaj on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šentjur {{ŠentjurpriCelju-geo-stub