Smuka
Sign in to saveSmuka (; in older sources also Smuk, or Langenthon, Gottscheerish: Zmuk) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. In 1941 at the beginning of the Second World War its original population was evicted. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. A cave known as Štavka or Štibloh () is located near the village, in the direction of Stari Log.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Smuka
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- Smuka Slovenia.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
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- right
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- Location in Slovenia
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- Country
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- 25px Slovenia
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- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lower Carniola
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- Statistical region
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- Southeast Slovenia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Kočevje
- Population
- +68
- Area
- +10.43
- Elevation
- +476.8
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Smuka Slovenia.jpg
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Smuka (; in older sources also Smuk, or Langenthon, Gottscheerish: Zmuk) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. In 1941 at the beginning of the Second World War its original population was evicted. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. A cave known as Štavka or Štibloh () is located near the village, in the direction of Stari Log.
==Name== The linguist Fran Ramovš suggested that the Slovene name Smuka refers to 'sloping, raised terrain', echoing a similar observation by Hans Tschinkel. The German name Langenthon is derived from the permission given to settle by the langen Thonen (literally, the 'big fir forest'; cf. German Tanne 'fir').