Travnik, Semič

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Travnik
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°38′51.04″N15°2′41.98″E / 45.6475111°N 15.0449944°E / 45.6475111; 15.0449944 Coordinates: 45°38′51.04″N15°2′41.98″E / 45.6475111°N 15.0449944°E / 45.6475111; 15.0449944
Country Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Southeast Slovenia
Municipality Semič
Elevation 844.6 m (2,771.0 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 0

Travnik (pronounced  [ˈtɾaːu̯nik] ; German : Scherenbrunn, [1] sometimes Grossberg [2] ) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Semič in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. [3] Its territory is now part of the village of Komarna Vas.

German language West Germanic language

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Municipality of Semič Municipality in Slovenia

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History

Travnik was a Gottschee German village. It was founded after 1558 and initially consisted of one half-farm and two quarter-farms. Before the Second World War there was a hunting and forestry watchman's house here as well as a hunter's blind with a bait area for bears. The village was burned by Italian troops in the summer of 1942 during the Rog Offensive and it was never rebuilt. [4]

Gottscheers ethnic group

Gottscheers are the German settlers of the Kočevje region of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect.

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References

  1. ↑ Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Raffelsperger, Franz. 1847. Allgemeines geographisches Lexikon des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates, vol. 11. Vienna: Druck und Verlag der k. k. a. p. typo-geographischen Kunstanstalt, p. 723.
  3. ↑ Semič municipal site
  4. ↑ Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 62.


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