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Širje
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Širje () is a settlement in the Municipality of Laško in eastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Sava River, immediately northwest of Zidani Most. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region.

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Place details

Locality
Zidani Most
Region
Municipality of Laško
Country
Slovenija
Population
49

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Širje
Settlement.other_name
Marija-Širje (until 1955)
Settlement.imagesize
250px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Slovenia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
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
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Laško
Settlement.area_total_km2
2.21
Settlement.population_as_of
2002
Settlement.population_total
48
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities

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Encyclopedic overview

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Širje () is a settlement in the Municipality of Laško in eastern Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Sava River, immediately northwest of Zidani Most. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region.

==Name== The name of the settlement was changed from Marija-Širje (literally, 'Our Lady of Širje') to Širje 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.

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

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