Brezovi Dol

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Brezovi Dol
Brezovi Dol
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°49′20.2″N 14°50′48.62″E / 45.822278°N 14.8468389°E / 45.822278; 14.8468389Coordinates: 45°49′20.2″N 14°50′48.62″E / 45.822278°N 14.8468389°E / 45.822278; 14.8468389
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Central Slovenia
Municipality Ivančna Gorica
Area
  Total 4.56 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Elevation 366.8 m (1,203.4 ft)
Population (2002)
  Total 157
[1]

Brezovi Dol (in older sources also Brezov Dol,[2] German: Birkenthal[3]) is a village east of Ambrus in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia statistical region.[4]

Name

The name Brezovi Dol literally means 'birch valley', derived from the common noun breza 'birch'. Like similar toponyms in Slovenia (e.g., Brezova, Brezovec, Brezovci), it originally referred to the local vegetation.[5] The 19th-century German name, Birkenthal,[3] also means 'birch valley'.

History

During the Second World War, Italian forces burned a number of houses in the village in July 1942.[6]

References

  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 467.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 42.
  4. Ivančna Gorica municipal site
  5. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 79.
  6. Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 125.

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