Kokra (settlement)

Kokra
Kokra

Location in Slovenia

Coordinates: 46°20′13.51″N 14°30′41.24″E / 46.3370861°N 14.5114556°E / 46.3370861; 14.5114556Coordinates: 46°20′13.51″N 14°30′41.24″E / 46.3370861°N 14.5114556°E / 46.3370861; 14.5114556
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Upper Carniola
Statistical region Upper Carniola
Municipality Preddvor
Area
 • Total 52.74 km2 (20.36 sq mi)
Elevation 898.9 m (2,949.1 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 266
[1]

Kokra (pronounced [ˈkoːkɾa]; German: Kanker[2]) is a settlement scattered along a 10 km stretch of the road from Kranj to Jezersko Peak in the Kokra Valley in the Municipality of Preddvor in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.[3]

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was completed in 1797 and dedicated in 1802.[4]

There is also a monument to the local victims of the Second World War in the settlement.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ↑ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 54.
  3. ↑ Preddvor municipal site
  4. ↑ Kokra at Kam.si (in Slovene)
  5. ↑ Official Journal of the Municipality of Preddvor 12(4), 19 October 2006, with list of declared cultural monuments in the municipality


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