Pesnica is a municipality

Municipality

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 in northeastern Slovenia

Slovenia

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 and administrative unit Upravna enota Pesnica. The center of municipality is a suburbia near Maribor, Pesnica pri Mariboru. It lies at the western end of the Slovenske Gorice

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...

 hills at the upper valley of the eponymous river. The area was part of the traditional region of Lower Styria

Lower Styria

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. It is now included in the Drava 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 settlement developed on the main regional road leading from Maribor

Maribor

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 towards Šentilj

Šentilj v Slovenskih goricah

Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah is a town and the administrative centre of the Municipality of Šentilj in northeastern Slovenia.The parish church, from which the settlement also gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Giles. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1329. In 1532 it was...

 and on towards Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

.

Mosta notable people from Pesnica are Tone Partljič, a writer, screenwriter and politician; Jan Muršak, a NHL hockey player, Ivo Štandeker, a writer and journalist who was killed in Sarajevo during the war; Ivan Anzelj Eder, mayor of municipality of Jarenina - today in Občina/Municipality Pesnica and founder of Firestation in Pesnica; Rene Krhin, slovenian football international who now plays for Bolonia and other people.

It's area has a perfect position for tourism, trucking and farming. The settlement developed on the main regional road leading from Maribor towards Šentilj and on towards Graz, instead of road Graz - Maribor trought Plač and Kunguta towards Maribor. Village Pesnica pri Mariboru is a new small town but Jarenina and Pernica are much older; Jarenina is also an old parish. There are a lot of castles and ecofarms, such are Kozar, Eder, Trunčič, Gaube, Sergo Dveripax and more. The main Maribor to Vienna

Vienna

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 railway line

Austrian Southern Railway

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 also runs through the settlement and contributed to its development. The modern motorway

A1 motorway (Slovenia)

The A1 motorway is 236,1 km long, connecting Šentilj and Koper/Capodistria . It passes several important Slovenian cities, including Maribor, Celje and Ljubljana all the way to the Slovenian Littoral and Koper, with its important port.Construction began in 1970 and the first section was...

 bypasses the settlement to the west.

External links

• Pesnica Municipality site
• Pesnica pri Mariboru on Geopedia
• http://www.upravneenote.gov.si/pesnica/o_upravni_enoti/ (Upravna enota Pesnica)
• http://www.infocity.si/drustvo-stibl (Društvo Štibl)
• http://www.drustvo-ekokmet.si/ZEKSVS/SLO/pred-kmetij.htm(Ekokmetija Sergo)
• http://www.dveri-pax.com/ (Dveri - pax)
• Jan Muršak
  Jan Mursak
  Jan Muršak is a professional Slovenian ice hockey forward currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League . Muršak first played hockey in Slovenia as a member of HDK Maribor before he left to spend one season in the Czech junior league...
  
   (Jan Muršak)
• Rene Krhin
  Rene Krhin
  Rene Krhin is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Serie A club Bologna.-Club career:Signing for Internazionale alongside fellow rising star Vid Belec from hometown club NK Maribor at age of 16 as an European Union player, he started to play for Internazionale at Allievi Nazionali team.In July...
  
   (Rene Krhin)
• :sl:Tone Partlji%C4%8D (Tone Parljič) (in slovenian)