Dragočajna

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Dragočajna
Dragočajna
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°10′28.58″N 14°25′3.25″E / 46.1746056°N 14.4175694°E / 46.1746056; 14.4175694Coordinates: 46°10′28.58″N 14°25′3.25″E / 46.1746056°N 14.4175694°E / 46.1746056; 14.4175694
Country Slovenia
Region Upper Carniola
Municipality Medvode
Area
  Total 2.22 km2 (0.86 sq mi)
Elevation 349.3 m (1,146.0 ft)
Population (2002)
  Total 171
[1]

Dragočajna (pronounced [dragɔˈtʃaːi̯na]; in older sources also Dragočajn,[2] German: Dragotschein[2] or Dragotschain[3]) is a village on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.[4]

Name

The settlement was first attested in 1455 as Dragotschein. The name is derived from *Dragočajina, based on the Slavic personal name Dragoča(jь), and thus originally meant 'Dragoča's settlement'.[5] The settlement was known as Dragotschein[2] or Dragotschain[3] in German in the past.

References

  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 8.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 56.
  4. Medvode municipal site
  5. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 121.

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