The Banjšice Plateau is a karst

KARST

Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope is a Chinese telescope project to which FAST is a forerunner. KARST is a set of large spherical reflectors on karst landforms, which are bowlshaped limestone sinkholes named after the Kras region in Slovenia and Northern Italy. It will consist of...

 plateau in western 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...

, in the Goriška

Goriška

Goriška is a traditional region in western Slovenia on the border with Italy. The name means "the Gorizia region" because it is named after Gorizia, Italy. It is part of the wider traditional region of the Slovenian Littoral . Its principal urban center is Nova Gorica...

 region. It is located northwest of the town of Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica ; 21,082 ; 31,000 ) is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy...

, overlooking the Soča

Soca

The Soča or Isonzo is a 140 km long river that flows through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy. An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in Slovenia, at an elevation of around 1,100 metres...

 River. During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, the Italian and the Austro-Hungarian Army

Austro-Hungarian Army

The Austro-Hungarian Army was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918. It was composed of three parts: the joint army , the Austrian Landwehr , and the Hungarian Honvédség .In the wake of fighting between the...

 fought in the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo

Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo

The Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo was a World War I battle fought by the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Armies on the Italian Front between August 18 and September 12, 1917.- Background :...

 on the plateau in August 1917.

The plateau was named after the village of Banjšice

Banjšice

Banjšice is a settlement in western Slovenia in the municipality of Nova Gorica. It has a population of 264. It is located on the high Banjšice Plateau, overlooking the Soča Valley...

, which is most probably the oldest settlement on the plateau. The other settlements on this largely unpopulated area are: Bate

Bate, Slovenia

Bate is a village in western Slovenia in the municipality of Nova Gorica. It is made up of several small settlements including Bate, Sveto and Podlaka....

, Grgarske Ravne

Grgarske Ravne

Grgarske Ravne is a settlement north of Grgar in the municipality of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. It is located on the Banjšice Plateau and it forms a local community together with the nearby village of Bate.-External links:*...

, and Lokovec

Lokovec

Lokovec is a dispersed settlement in western Slovenia in the municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located on the Banjšice Plateau overlooking the narrow Valley of Čepovan which divides it from the vast Trnovo Forest, extending on the other side of the valley...

. Traditionally, the villages on the plateau used to gravitate towards Kanal ob Soči

Kanal ob Soci

Kanal ob Soči is a town and municipality in Slovenia, established in 1995 by secession from Nova Gorica.The town itself is an important crossing point over the River Soča. The first bridge was built by the Romans. The current bridge was built after World War I. The center of the town was fortified...

 and partially towards Grgar

Grgar

Grgar is a village in western Slovenia in the municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located under Mount Sveta Gora, above the Soča Valley and beneath the Banjšice Plateau....

 and Solkan

Solkan

Solkan is a suburb of the town of Nova Gorica in the Goriška region of western Slovenia, close to the border with Italy. Although it is nowadays completely integrated into Nova Gorica, with which it forms a single urban area, it has maintained the status of a separate urban settlement, due to its...

, but nowadays they are all included in the municipality of Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica ; 21,082 ; 31,000 ) is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy...

, where most of the locals work.

See also

• Gorizia and Gradisca
  Gorizia and Gradisca
  The County of Gorizia and Gradisca was a Habsburg county in Central Europe, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo.-Province of the Habsburg Empire:...
  
  
• Austrian Littoral
  Austrian Littoral
  The Austrian Littoral was established as a crown land of the Austrian Empire in 1849. In 1861 it was divided into the three crown lands of the Imperial Free City of Trieste and its suburbs, the Margraviate of Istria, and the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca, which each had separate...
  
  
• Julian March
  Julian March
  The Julian March is a former political region of southeastern Europe on what are now the borders between Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy...
  
  
• Tourism in Slovenia
  Tourism in Slovenia
  The Central European nation of Slovenia offers tourists a wide variety of landscapes in a small space: Alpine in the northwest, Mediterranean in the southwest, Pannonian in the northeast and Dinaric in the southeast....