Matke
Sign in to saveMatke () is a settlement in the Municipality of Prebold in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the valley of Kolja Creek, a minor right tributary of the Savinja River, and the surrounding hills southeast of Prebold. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Matke
- Settlement.other_name
- Sveta Magdalena pri Preboldu (until 1955)
- 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
- Styria
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Savinja
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Prebold
- Population
- +358
- Area
- +7.66
- Elevation
- +424
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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Matke () is a settlement in the Municipality of Prebold in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the valley of Kolja Creek, a minor right tributary of the Savinja River, and the surrounding hills southeast of Prebold. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.
==Name== The name of the settlement was changed from Sveta Magdalena pri Preboldu (literally, 'Saint Mary Magdalene near Prebold') to Matke in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. The name Matke is an accusative plural form of the personal name Matko, derived from Matej 'Matthaeus', thus originally meaning 'Matko and his family'. Before it became the name of the entire settlement, Matke referred to only one of several hamlets in the settlement.