Gradišče, Slovenj Gradec

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Gradišče
Gradišče
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°31′10.64″N 15°6′55.75″E / 46.5196222°N 15.1154861°E / 46.5196222; 15.1154861Coordinates: 46°31′10.64″N 15°6′55.75″E / 46.5196222°N 15.1154861°E / 46.5196222; 15.1154861
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Styria
Statistical region Carinthia
Municipality Slovenj Gradec
Area
  Total 5.5 km2 (2.1 sq mi)
Elevation 676.5 m (2,219.5 ft)
Population (2002)
  Total 310
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Gradišče is a settlement in the City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec in northern Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of Styria. The entire municipality is now included in the Carinthia statistical region.[2]

Mass graves

Gradišče is the site of two known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. Both graves are located in the western part of the settlement, in the northern outskirts of Slovenj Gradec, and contain the remains of Croatians that were traveling toward the Austrian border and killed between 10 and 15 May 1945. The Troblje Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Troblje) is located on the east side of the road to Dravograd, near a shrine next to a ditch with a creek that flows into the Mislinja River. It is a former antitank trench that contains the remains of an unknown number victims.[3] The Tretjak Farm Mass Grave (Grobišče na domačiji Tretjak) is located on the Tretjak farm at Gradišče no. 6. It contains the remains of 12 victims.[4]

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