Miren
Sign in to saveMiren (; ) is an urbanized settlement in the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia right next to the border with Italy. The hill known as Miren Castle () rises above the settlement to the south.
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Place details
- Locality
- Miren
- Region
- Municipality of Miren–Kostanjevica
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 1,460
- Timezone
- Europe/Ljubljana
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Miren
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mirenskigrad1.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Miren with Miren Castle from the Karst Plateau
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Miren - Kostanjevica.gif
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Littoral
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Miren–Kostanjevica Municipality
- Population
- +1491
- Area
- +2.48
- Elevation
- +50.3
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Mirenskigrad1.jpg
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- P1889
- Merna
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Article
6 sectionsContents
- Name
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- Notable people
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Miren (; ) is an urbanized settlement in the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia right next to the border with Italy. The hill known as Miren Castle () rises above the settlement to the south.
==Name== The settlement was attested in written sources in 1494 as Merinach an der Wippach, and in 1523 as Japinitz oder Merina. The name is believed to have arisen through ellipsis of a noun phrase (e.g., *miren grad 'walled castle'), leaving the adjective *miren 'walled' (