Martjanci is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 between Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota is a city in northeastern Slovenia. It is located in the eponymous municipality near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.-Name:...

 and Moravske Toplice

Moravske Toplice

Moravske Toplice is a town and a municipality in Slovenia, part of the Prekmurje region. It is best known as a spa town.The municipality is an important center of Lutheranism in Slovenia. Large Lutheran churches are found both in the settlement, as in other surrounding villages...

 in the Prekmurje

Prekmurje

Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...

 region of Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

.

It is known for its parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 dedicated to Saint Martin

Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...

, from which the village gets its name. It is a single-nave

Nave

In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting...

 church built in 1392 on the site of an older church. The presbytery

Sanctuary

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 is vaulted and covered in wall paintings

Mural

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 by the 14th-century local artist Johannes Aquila, who also painted the churches in Velemér

Velemér

- Parochial church :The beautiful building can be found in the forest at the end of the village. Its murals of late Árpád-age was painted by Aquila János. It was destructed by fire in the late 1800 years. Earlier it was measured and described by Rómer Flóris, member of the Hungarian Academy of...

, Turnišče

Turnišce

Turnišče is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. It is first mentioned in written documents dating to the 13th century. In 1524 it was granted market rights and town privileges in 1548....

, and Fürstenfeld

Fürstenfeld

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. The paintings are signed and a self-portrait of the artist is included in the scheme.

The Martjanci hymnal  was compiled in Martjanci in a mixture of Prekmurje dialect

Prekmurje dialect

Prekmurian, also known as the Pannonian-Slovene, East-Slovene, or Wendish , is the easternmost separate dialect of Slovene, spoken in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia and by the Hungarian Slovenes in Vas county in western Hungary...

 and Kajkavian dialect

Kajkavian dialect

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 in the 16th and 17th centuries. This manuscript hymnal, kept at the university library in Maribor

Maribor

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, is an exceptionally important literary monument because of its contents and the use of dialect, which influenced later transcriptions of Prekmurje folk songs.

The writers Miklós Legén, Mihály Terplán, József Pusztai

József Pusztai

József Pusztai – originally József Pozderecz, – was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist, teacher and cantor in Hungary. He was also known under the pen name of Tibor Andorhegyi....

, and József Bagáry

József Bagáry

József Bagáry was Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer in Hungary.Born in Murska Sobota. His father József Bagáry Hungarian petty nobleman, mother slovene Katalin Monek.Studied in Güns and Szombathely, was consecrated on July 14, 1866...

lived in the village.

External links

• Martjanci on Geopedia