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Podlesje
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Podlesje (; ) is an abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. During the Second World War its original population was expelled. 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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The entry is geolocated on the map in SI, across 2 mapped points.

Vinony's link graph records 131 inbound references to Podlesje, and connects out to German, Slovenia and World War II.

It is catalogued under topics including 1955 disestablishments in Slovenia, Populated places disestablished in 1955 and Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje.

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Place details

Locality
Spodnja Bilpa
Region
Municipality of Kočevje
Country
Slovenija
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Podlesje
Settlement.other_name
Verdreng, Ferdreng (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
Lower Carniola
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Statistical region
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Southeast Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Kočevje
Settlement.area_total_km2
15.34
Settlement.population_as_of
2002
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities
Settlement.population_blank2_title
Religions

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Wikidata facts

Population
2
Area
15.34
Elevation
510.9
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female population
2
male population
0
Commons category
Podlesje
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • History
  • Prison camp
  • Church
  • References
  • External links

Podlesje (; ) is an abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. During the Second World War its original population was expelled. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

==Name== The name of the settlement was changed from Verdreng (identical to the German name Verdreng), or the Slovenianized form Ferdreng, to Podlesje 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 German elements from toponyms. During the Second World War, there were plans to reuse the name Verdreng for the villages of Rigonce and neighboring Loče in the Rann Triangle ().

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

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