Turje () is a settlement in the hills southeast of
Dol in the
Municipality of Hrastnik
The Municipality of Hrastnik (; ) is a municipality in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Hrastnik. The area is part of the traditional Styria region. The entire municipality is now included in the Central Sava Statistic ...
in central
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Central Sava Statistical Region
The Central Sava Statistical RegionBoršič, Darja, & Alenka Kavkler. 2009. Modeling Unemployment Duration in Slovenia Using Cox Regression Models. ''Transition Studies Review'' 54(1): 145–156, p. 148. () is a statistical region in Slovenia. T ...
.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Štefan'' (literally, 'Saint Stephen') to ''Turje'' 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.
Church
The
parish church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in com ...
in the settlement is dedicated to
Saint Stephen
Stephen (; ) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity.["St ...]
and belongs to the
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of Dol pri Hrastniku.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2946
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Turje include:
*Janko Orožen
Janko Orožen (; 10 December 1891 – 30 September 1989)Šlebinger, Janko. 1935. "Orožen Janko." ''Slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 6: Mrkun–Peterlin. Ljubljana: Zadružna gospodarska banka. was a Slovene historian and schoolteacher.
L ...
(1891–1989), historian
References
External links
Turje on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Hrastnik
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