Žvirče
Sign in to saveŽvirče (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Žužemberk in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
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Place details
- Locality
- Žvirče
- Region
- Municipality of Žužemberk
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 125
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Žvirče
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Zvirce Slovenia 1.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- 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
- Žužemberk
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 12.86
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2002
- Settlement.population_total
- 152
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Žužemberk
- Population
- 125
- Area
- 12.86
- Elevation
- 436.1
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Zvirce Slovenia 1.JPG
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- Žvirče
- female population
- 69
- male population
- 56
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Žvirče (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Žužemberk in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
==History== Žvirče was burned several times by Italian forces during the Second World War. The school was burned in a Partisan attack in March 1943, and the village came under German aerial bombardment on 1 March 1944 and six villagers were killed. At the end of 1944, six Partisans were killed and 11 wounded in an engagement with German forces. On 15 March 1945, the 15th division of the Yugoslav Partisans burned the village and evicted the population.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Žvirče” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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