Grčarice
Sign in to saveGrčarice (; locally also Grčav(i)ce, in older sources also Gerčarice, , Gottscheerish: Masharə) is a village in the Municipality of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
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Place details
- Locality
- Grčarice
- Region
- Municipality of Ribnica
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 177
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Grčarice
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Grčarice Slovenia 2.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lower Carniola
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Southeast Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Ribnica
- Population
- +158
- Area
- +8.19
- Elevation
- +519.1
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Postcard of Grčarice.jpg
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Article
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Grčarice (; locally also Grčav(i)ce, in older sources also Gerčarice, , Gottscheerish: Masharə) is a village in the Municipality of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
==Name== Grčarice was first attested in written sources in 1498 as Masern. The German name Masern is derived from the Old High German root maser 'knotty growth on a tree'. This semantically corresponds to the Slovene root grča 'knot', which may be the basis of the Slovene name Grčarice. Other theories of the origin of the Slovene name are that it is based on the surname Grčar, in turn derived from the Slovene common noun grča (in the sense of 'clod, clump', among many other meanings), or that it is derived from grnčar 'potter', implying that the village was settled by potters.