Kladje nad Blanco

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Kladje nad Blanco
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Kladje nad Blanco
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°59′45.37″N15°24′25.81″E / 45.9959361°N 15.4071694°E / 45.9959361; 15.4071694 Coordinates: 45°59′45.37″N15°24′25.81″E / 45.9959361°N 15.4071694°E / 45.9959361; 15.4071694
Country Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Traditional region Styria
Statistical region Lower Sava
Municipality Sevnica
Area
 • Total 2.22 km2 (0.86 sq mi)
Elevation 222 m (728 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 150
[1]

Kladje nad Blanco (pronounced  [ˈklaːdjɛ nad ˈblaːntsɔ] ) is a settlement east of Blanca on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Sevnica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. [2]

Blanca, Sevnica in Styria, Slovenia

Blanca is a settlement on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Sevnica in central Slovenia.The area is part of the historical region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. The settlement includes the neighborhood of Agrež in the west and the hamlets of Suho and Vrhek to the northeast. The railway line from Ljubljana to Zagreb runs along the left bank of the Sava and there is a small railway station in the settlement.

Sava river in Southeast Europe

The Sava is a river in Central and Southeastern Europe, a right tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, along the northern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and through Serbia, discharging into the Danube in Belgrade. Its central part is a natural border of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. The Sava forms the northern border of the Balkan Peninsula, and the southern edge of the Pannonian Plain.

Municipality of Sevnica Municipality in Slovenia

The Municipality of Sevnica is a municipality along the Sava and the Mirna Rivers in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Sevnica. Today it is part of the Lower Sava Statistical Region. It is the 12th-largest municipality by area in Slovenia.

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Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Kladje to Kladje nad Blanco in 1953. [3]

Cultural heritage

There are two Iron Age burial mounds near the settlement. Although they do not belong to the same era, local legend associates them with Attila's grave. [4]

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humankind. It was preceded by the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. The concept has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, and, by analogy, also to other parts of the Old World.

Tumulus Mound of earth and stones raised over graves

A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus.

Attila 5th-century ruler of the Hunnic Empire

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, and Alans among others, in Central and Eastern Europe.

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References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ↑ Sevnica municipal site
  3. ↑ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
  4. ↑ "EŠD 14735". Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage (in Slovenian). Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
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