| Pordašinci Kisfalu | |
|---|---|
  Pordašinci Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 46°43′24.44″N16°20′11.92″E / 46.7234556°N 16.3366444°E Coordinates: 46°43′24.44″N16°20′11.92″E / 46.7234556°N 16.3366444°E | |
| Country |  |
| Traditional region | Prekmurje |
| Statistical region | Mura |
| Municipality | Moravske Toplice |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.43 km2 (0.94 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 216.5 m (710.3 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 50 |
| [1] | |
Pordašinci (pronounced [pɔɾˈdaːʃintsi] ; Hungarian : Kisfalu) is a roadside village in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, close to the border with Hungary. [2]
Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary it is also spoken by communities of Hungarians in the countries that today make up Slovakia, western Ukraine (Subcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia and northern Slovenia. It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America and Israel. Like Finnish and Estonian, Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family. With 13 million speakers, it is the family's largest member by number of speakers.
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.
The Municipality of Moravske Toplice is a municipality in Slovenia, part of the Prekmurje region. Its centre is the spa settlement Moravske Toplice. The municipality is an important center of Lutheranism in Slovenia. Large Lutheran churches are found both in the settlement, as in other surrounding villages.
There is a wooden belfry in the centre of the village. It was erected in 1926. [3]
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service.
