Pristava (; , , ), also known locally as ''Rafut'' (), is one of the four

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s of the town of

Nova Gorica Nova Gorica () is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica is a planned town, built according to the principles of modernist architecture after 1947, when the Treaty of pe ...

in the

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region of western

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(the other three are

Solkan Solkan ( or ; , or ''Salcano'') is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia, at the border with Italy. Although it forms a single urban area with the city of Nova Gorica today, it has maintained th ...

Rožna Dolina Rožna Dolina (; , ) is one of the four suburbs of the town of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (the others being Solkan, Kromberk, and Pristava). It is on the border with Italy. Before 1947, it used to be a suburb of the town of Gorizia, which w ...

, and

Kromberk Kromberk (; , ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. Together with its two satellite settlements of Ajševica and Loke, it forms one of the four major suburbs of Nova Gorica (the others being Solkan, Rožna Dol ...

). Between the late 18th century and 1947, it used to be a suburb of the town of

(now in

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). When the city was partitioned in 1947, most of the city center remained in Italy, while its eastern suburbs were annexed to

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. Part of Pristava (Rafut) remained in Italy, and while part of it became part of

. In some cases, the border was drawn literally between individual houses. Until Slovenia's entry into the

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in 2007, a local border crossing operated in Pristava. The

Kostanjevica Monastery The Kostanjevica Monastery with Annunciation Church stands on a -tall hill dividing the town of Nova Gorica and the settlement of Pristava, Nova_Gorica, Pristava. It is located in Slovenia just from the Italy–Slovenia border. It is the burial pl ...

, in which

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is buried, is located on a hill above the settlement.

References

External links

Pristava on Geopedia
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica Nova Gorica {{NovaGorica-geo-stub