Zapeć is a village in

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, under the

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township, in

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. Ecclesiastically, it is under the

Plemenitaš Plemenitaš, sometimes called Plemenitaši, is a village in Croatia, under the Vrbovsko township, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is the seat of a parish encompassing Blaževci, Croatia, Blaževci, Štefanci, Zapeć and Zaumol. History On 28 ...

parish.

Etymology

The village is named after a cave, "Peć", which has in turn taken on the name of the village as " Zapeć".

Architecture

There is a mill () just south of Zapeć, opposite

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History

On 28 June 1774, lord Mihal Mikulić of Severin on behalf of count

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drew up in Severin a list of duties of freedmen and serfs in Razdrto, Štefanci, Blaževci, Zapeć,

and Košac. It was signed by Marko Barić of Zapeć. The villagers of Zapeć were serfs. The original survives in the HDA in

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, survives in the HDA, and was published by . Ecclesiastically, Zapeć has belonged to the parish of

since its foundation in 1805, before which it was under

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, although its parish registers were in

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until the construction of the present church in Plemenitaš in 1790. Zapeć has always been well-connected with the Slovene side of the river as well, and of all the villages on the Croatian side of the

Predgrad Predgrad (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 8. or ''Pölland'') is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. ...

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valley it saw the most marriages across the river. The

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of Dušan Vilhar was in function until 1968 and had customers on both sides of the river, after which business shifted to the sawmill in Blaževci. The

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s were installed in 1981/1982 from Dol in Slovenia, so Zapeć ended up with a

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number along with Blaževci and Plemenitaš, contrasting with the rest of

municipality. Before the installation of telephone lines, one had to place a call at the telephone in the

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of Stari Trg. The Blaževci-Plemenitaš road, which passes through Zapeć, was asphalted in 1986. Zapeć was hit by the

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Demographics

In 1870, Zapeć, in Blaževci's ''porezna općina'', had 12 houses and 91 people. In 1890, Zapeći had 18 houses and 91 people. Šutejevac had 2 houses and 27 people. Its villagers were under

parish and school districts, but were administered by Severin and taxed by Blaževci.

Politics

As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it belongs to the of

Linguistics

The local dialect is closely related to that of Blaževci, Zaumol,

, and Štefanci, belonging to the West .

Infrastructure

The water storage unit in Zaumol, with a capacity of at an elevation of , is also responsible for Plemenitaš, Zapeć, Blaževci and Štefanci.

Gallery

Zapeć-2.jpg, Seen from Slovenia.