Zgornja Sveča () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Majšperk The Municipality of Majšperk (; ) is a municipality in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is Majšperk. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. Set ...

in northeastern

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. It lies on the regional road from Majšperk to

Rogatec Rogatec (; Suppan, Arnold. 1996. ''Jugoslawien und Österreich 1918–1938: Bilaterale Außenpolitik im Europäischen Umfeld.'' Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, p. 663.) is a small town in eastern Slovenia, on the border with Croatia. I ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

Drava Statistical Region The Drava Statistical Region () is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorj ...

.Majšperk municipal site
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History

Zgornja Sveča became a separate settlement in 1974, when the former village of Sveča was divided into this village and neighboring

Spodnja Sveča Spodnja Sveča () is a settlement on the right bank of the Dravinja River in the Municipality of Majšperk in northeastern Slovenia. It lies at the confluence of Dežnica Creek with Skralska Creek, a minor right tributary of the Dravinja. The area ...

References

External links

Zgornja Sveča on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Majšperk {{Majšperk-geo-stub