Dobrovnik is a village and a municipality in 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 located 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. It has a significant Hungarian ethnic community that outnumbers the Slovenes. In fact, Dobrovnik is one of the two municipalities in Slovenia where ethnic Slovenes form a minority of the population, the other being Hodoš

Hodoš

Hodoš is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. It is part of the Prekmurje region. Both Slovene and Hungarian are official languages in the municipality....

.

Dobrovnik is first mentioned in written sources dating to 1270. In 1747 the entire village, including the 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....

 was badly damaged in a fire. The new parish church was built between 1794 and 1796 and is dedicated to Saint James and belongs to the Murska Sobota Diocese.

Demographics

Population by mother tongue, census 2002

Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

  675 (51.6%)

Slovene 551 (44.6%)

Others and Unknown 71 (5.43%)

Total 1307

External links

• Dobrovnik Municipality site
• Dobrovnik on Geopedia