| Padež | |
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  Padež Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 45°53′4.01″N14°21′12.97″E / 45.8844472°N 14.3536028°E Coordinates: 45°53′4.01″N14°21′12.97″E / 45.8844472°N 14.3536028°E | |
| Country |  |
| Traditional region | Inner Carniola |
| Statistical region | Central Slovenia |
| Municipality | Vrhnika |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.65 km2 (1.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 728.7 m (2,390.7 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 38 |
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Padež (pronounced [ˈpaːdɛʃ] ) is a small village in the hills south of Borovnica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. It lies in the Municipality of Vrhnika. [2]
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.
Inner Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral in the west. Its administrative and economic center of the region is Postojna, and other minor centers include Logatec, Cerknica, Pivka, and Ilirska Bistrica.
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a sovereign state located in southern Central Europe at a crossroads of important European cultural and trade routes. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It covers 20,273 square kilometers (7,827 sq mi) and has a population of 2.07 million. One of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of NATO. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
