Žice
Encyclopedia
Žice is a dispersed settlement
in the Sveta Ana
Municipality
in the Slovenske gorice hills
in northeastern Slovenia
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Dispersed settlement
A dispersed settlement is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world....
in the Sveta Ana
Sveta Ana
Sveta Ana is a settlement and a municipality in the Slovenske gorice hills in northeastern Slovenia.The Parish Church, from which the settlement also gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Anne. It also features in the coat of arms of the municipality. It was built between 1693 and 1705 and renovated...
Municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Slovenske gorice hills
Slovenske gorice
Slovenske gorice with an area of 1017 km2 is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria...
in northeastern 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...
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