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Murska Sobota
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town in northeastern Slovenia; the centre of the traditional province of Prekmurje
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Murska Sobota is a city in Slovenia, situated within the Pomurska region and the City Municipality of Murska Sobota. It serves as the capital of Pomurska, the Republic of Prekmurje, and its own municipality. The city was established in 1348 and is located near the Mur river, sharing a border with Moravske Toplice. Its elevation is 192 meters above sea level.
The city has a population of 13,857, of which 5,178 are female, covering an area of 14,000,000. Murska Sobota is twinned with Ingolstadt, Firminy, Bethlehem, and Paraćin. It uses the postal code 9000 and the local dialing code 02.
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Place details
- Locality
- Murska Sobota
- Region
- Urban Municipality of Murska Sobota
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 11,107
- Timezone
- Europe/Ljubljana
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Murska Sobota
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Pomurska
- Population
- 11307
- Area
- 14000000
- Elevation
- 192
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mur
- Capital of
- City Municipality of Murska Sobota
- Shares border with
- Moravske Toplice
- Official website
- murska-sobota.si
- Image
- MurskaSobota1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 02
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- twinned administrative body
- Podstrana
- Commons category
- Murska Sobota
- topic's main category
- Category:Murska Sobota
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Murska Sobota
- postal code
- 9000
- native label
- Murska Sobota
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Murska Sobota
- inception
- 1348-00-00
- P8168
- Carl Jules Weyl
- female population
- 5178
- male population
- 5929
- P12749
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Travel guide
See
Mürska Subouta lies on Pannonian plain, which means landscape is flat. Surroundings of Mürska Subouta is stunning. The city is only Slovenian city with majority of Protestants instead of Catholics which is reason for beautiful Protestant cathedral. Holocaust memorial at the railway station. It is dedicated to the memory of the once-significant Jewish community of the Prekmurje region. The members of the community were arrested by the Hungarian authorities in 1944 and transported to Hungary proper and Croatia, from which they were then deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Do
Watch football: NŠ Mura play soccer in PrvaLiga, the country's top tier. Their home ground is Fazanerija City Stadium, capacity 7800, one km northwest of town centre. However for the biggest games (eg Europa Conference) they play in Maribor.
Drink
Cafe Pomaranča on the main square has free WIFI and nice selection of drinks and ice cream. Great atmosphere.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Murska Sobota ( pronounced [ˈmúːɾska ˈsóːbɔta] , Slovenian abbreviation: MS [məˈsə́]; German: Olsnitz; Hungarian: Muraszombat) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the Municipality of Murska Sobota near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.
Name
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