Litija
Sign in to saveLitija (; ) is a town in the Litija Basin in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Litija. It is located in the valley of the Sava River, east of the capital Ljubljana, in the traditional region of Upper Carniola. The entire municipality is now included in the Central Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. The town is home to about 6,500 people.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Litija is referenced by 248 other articles, and connects out to German, Croatia and Slovenia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Cities and towns in Upper Carniola and Populated places in the Municipality of Litija.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Litija
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- sl
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_caption
- From top, left to right: Overview of Litija, St. Nicholas' Church, Library, Turn Castle, Old town house, Litija Riverbank
- Settlement.image_shield
- Grb Občine Litija.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Litija in Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Upper Carniola
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Sava
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Litija
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Franci Rokavec
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 5.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Litija
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Litija
- Population
- 2639
- Area
- 5.3
- Elevation
- 241
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Municipality of Litija
- Image
- Litija iz zraka.jpg
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- Commons category
- Litija
- female population
- 3348
- male population
- 3325
- native label
- Litija
- topic's main category
- Category:Litija
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Litija (; ) is a town in the Litija Basin in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Litija. It is located in the valley of the Sava River, east of the capital Ljubljana, in the traditional region of Upper Carniola. The entire municipality is now included in the Central Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. The town is home to about 6,500 people.
==Name== Litija was mentioned in written documents in 1256 as apud Litigiam and apud Lvtyam (and as Lutya in 1363, Littai in 1431, Luttey in 1444, and propre Lutiam in 1480). Medieval transcriptions indicate that the name was originally *Ljutija, derived from *Ľutoviďa (vьsь) (literally, 'Ľutovidъ's village'). Suggestions that -ija is a suffix or that the name is derived from German Lutte '(mining) drain' are less likely. Other pseudoetymologies include Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's suggestion that the name evolved from litus, the Latin word for 'riverbank'. The town was officially known as Littai in German until 1918.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Litija” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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