Kidričevo is a town and a 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...

 near Ptuj

Ptuj

Ptuj is a city and one of 11 urban municipalities in Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Podravje statistical region...

 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...

. The town was formerly called Strnišče, but was renamed after the Second World War in honour of Boris Kidrič

Boris Kidric

Boris Kidrič was a leading Slovenian Communist who was, jointly with Edvard Kardelj, one of the chief organizers of the Partisan struggle in Slovenia from 1941 to 1945....

, the first president of the Slovenian government, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria

Lower Styria

Lower Styria or Slovenian Styria is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria. The population of Lower Styria in its historical boundaries amounts to around 705,000 inhabitants, or 34.5% of the population of Slovenia...

 region. The municipality is now included in the Podravje statistical region

Podravska statistical region

The Drava statistical region is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Maribor. Its name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorje mountains in the northeast of the region. The Drava is used for...

. The town is industrialized and best known for the aluminium smelting factory Talum

Talum

Talum is a major Slovenian company based in Kidričevo and specialised in alumina and aluminium products with an annual production capacity of around 156,000 tonnes.- History :...

. The town developed due to the industry in the area and is an expample of urban planning

Urban planning

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in the late 1940s. 1950s and 1960s.

External links

• Kidričevo Municipality at Geopedia
• Kidričevo, official page of municipality (in Slovene)
• Talum Company - aluminium company