Braslovče

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Občina Braslovče
CoA Braslovče
Location Braslovče
Area: 54.9 km²
Population 4,933
 - males 2,435
 - females 2,498
Mayor: Marko Balant
Average age: 44.01 years
Residential areas: 31.51 m²/person
 - households: 1,623
 - families: 1,412
Working active: 2,415
 - unemployed: 317
Average monthly salary (August 2003):
 - gross: 203,408 SIT
 - net: 131,812 SIT
College/university students: 198
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, census of 2002.

Braslovče in a municipality in Slovenia in Lower Styria. As of the 2002 census, Braslovče had 4,933 inhabitants. Braslovče was first documented in 1140. In the second half of the 14th century Braslovče was granted the rights of a market town by the Counts of Cilli. The parish church, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, was mentioned for the first time in 1255.

Braslovče includes the following villages: Dobrovlje, Glinje, Gomilsko (first documented in 1545), Grajska vas, Kamenče (first documented in 1423), Letuš (first documented in in 1340), Male Braslovče, Orla vas, Parižlje (first documented in 1383), Podgorje, Podvrh, Poljče, Preserje, Rakovlje, Spodnje Gorče (first documented in 1269), Šentrupert (first documented in 1336), Šmatevž, Topovlje, Trnava, Zakl, and Zgornje Gorče.

World War II officially ended in Slovenia when Commander Alexander Löhr surrendered in the name of the German troops in Slovenia, in Letuš in May 1945.

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 3 February 2006.

 
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