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Mahovnik (; in older sources also Mošvald; , in older sources also Moschwald) is a settlement on the left bank of the Rinža River, immediately northwest of the town of Kočevje 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
Mahovnik pri Kočevju
Country
Slovenija

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Mahovnik
Settlement.image_skyline
Mahovnik Slovenia.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
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Kočevje
Settlement.area_total_km2
5.32
Settlement.population_as_of
2002
Settlement.population_total
322
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Slovenia
Population
309
Area
5.32
Elevation
466.3
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Image
Mahovnik Slovenia.jpg
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Commons category
Mahovnik
female population
163
male population
146
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Encyclopedic overview

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Mahovnik (; in older sources also Mošvald; , in older sources also Moschwald) is a settlement on the left bank of the Rinža River, immediately northwest of the town of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

==History== Mahovnik was the first settlement in Gottschee attested in written sources. It was named in a letter from Patriarch Bertram to Count Oton von Ortenburg on 1 September 1339. At the time, it also included the territory of present-day Kočevje, which was still unnamed. In 1574 the settlement had 20 half-farms and one tenant farmer. The settlement was the first point of arrival for Gottschee German settlers in the area in the 14th century. The ethnically German settlers were evicted in 1941, after which the settlement was repopulated by arrivals from other parts of Slovenia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mahovnik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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