| Grahovo | |
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Grahovo
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Slovenia |
| Region | Inner Carniola |
| Municipality | Cerknica |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.03 km2 (2.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 569.6 m (1,869 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 432 |
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Grahovo is a village on the eastern shores of Lake Cerknica in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.[2]
The Grahovo parish church, built southeast of the settlement, is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and belongs to the Ljubljana Archdiocese. It was built in 1992. The original church dating to 1671 was burned down during the Partisan attack on 24 November 1943. The people of the village were not permitted to remove the ruins until 1960, and permission was not granted to build a new church until after Slovenian independence in 1991.[3],[4]
The poet France Balantič died in the village in 1943 in the attack by the Partisan resistance on a Slovenian Home Guard supply post in which he was stationed as an officer. A memorial to him was erected in front of the local school in 1990.[5]
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