Seč (; or ''Gehack (bei Tschermoschnitz)'',Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.

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: ''Gəhack''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a remote abandoned settlement in the

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in southern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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. Its territory is now part of the village of Travni Dol.

Name

The Slovene name ''Seč'' and the German name ''Gehag, Gehack'' are semantically identical, referring to cleared land. The Slovene common noun ''seč'' means 'logged land, lumbering' as does the German common noun and microtoponym ''Gehack''.Jung, Irene. 1985. ''Flurnamen an der mittleren Lahn''. Giessen: Schmitz, p. 60.

History

Seč was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. It was founded relatively late because it was not listed in the

Gottschee Gottschee (, ) refers to a former German-speaking region in Carniola, a crownland of the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg Empire, part of the historical and traditional region of Lower Carniola, now in Slovenia. The region has been a county, duchy, di ...

land registry of 1574 or in the 1770 census. In 1931 it had seven houses and a population of 33.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 471. Before the

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the economy of the village was based on farming and selling wood, and the villagers also owned some vineyards. The residents were evicted in 1941 and the village was burned by Italian troops in 1942.

References

External links

Seč on GeopediaPre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Seč
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Novo Mesto Former settlements in Slovenia 1953 disestablishments in Slovenia {{NovoMesto-geo-stub