Migojnice

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Migojnice
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Migojnice
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°13′45.56″N15°9′31.27″E / 46.2293222°N 15.1586861°E / 46.2293222; 15.1586861 Coordinates: 46°13′45.56″N15°9′31.27″E / 46.2293222°N 15.1586861°E / 46.2293222; 15.1586861
Country Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Traditional region Styria
Statistical region Savinja
Municipality Žalec
Area
 • Total 2.57 km2 (0.99 sq mi)
Elevation 288.7 m (947.2 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 629
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Migojnice (pronounced  [miˈɡoːi̯nitsɛ] ) is a village on the right bank of the Savinja River in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. [2]

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.

Savinja river in Slovenia

The Savinja is a river in northeast Slovenia which flows mostly in the Upper and Lower Savinja Valley and through the cities of Celje and Laško. The Savinja is the main river of the Savinja Alps. It flows into the Sava River at the town of Zidani Most. It has often flooded, such as in the 1960s, 1990, and 1995. The Savinja has a length of 101.75 kilometres (63.22 mi) and a catchment area of 1,847.7 km2 (713.4 sq mi).

Municipality An administrative division having corporate status and usually some powers of self-government or jurisdiction

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Name

The village was attested in written sources in 1265–67 as Makoyn, and in 1763–87 as Megoiniz. The origin of the name is unclear, but it may be derived from *Maligojnice (based on the personal name *Maligojь) with syncope of the second syllable (cf. Magozd < *Mal(i) gozd). If so, the name would originally mean 'place where Maligojь's people live'. [3]

Magozd Place in Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Magozd is a settlement in the Municipality of Kobarid in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes (Slovene : Lurška Mati božja) and belongs to the Parish of Griže. It was built between 1888 and 1891. [4]

Church (building) building constructed for Christian worship

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Our Lady of Lourdes Title of Mary, mother of Jesus, related to her alleged apparitions in Lourdes

Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" spoke to her in the cave of Massabielle while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar apparitions of the "Lady" were reported on seventeen occasions that year, until the climax revelation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception took place.

Slovene language language spoken in Slovenia

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References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ↑ Žalec municipal site
  3. ↑ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 262.
  4. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 3547


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