Tekačevo (, in older sources ''Takačevo'',
) is a settlement in the
Municipality of Rogaška Slatina
The Municipality of Rogaška Slatina (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Rogaška Slatina. Rogaška Slatina became a municipality in 1994. It borders Cro ...
in eastern
Slovenia
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. The
railway line
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from
Celje
Celje (, , ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, third-largest city in Slovenia. It is a regional center of the traditional Slovenian region of Styria (Slovenia), Styria and the administrative seat of the City Municipality of Celje. Th ...
to Rogaška Slatina runs through the settlement. The wider area around Rogaška Slatina is part of the traditional region of
Styria
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. It 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 ...
.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Spodnje Tekačevo'' and ''Zgornje Tekačevo'' to ''Tekačevo'' in 1952.
Mass murder
On 4 March 1997, a never resolved
mass murder
Mass murder is the violent crime of murder, killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more ...
, considered the worst or one of the worst murders in independent Slovenia, happened in Tekačevo. Four people (a married couple and their tenants) were killed. The only suspect has been Kristijan Kamenik, but his involvement has never been proved.
References
External links
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Tekačevo on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Rogaška Slatina
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