Telče is a settlement to the east of Tržišče

Tržišče, Sevnica

Tržišče is a settlement in the Sevnica municipality in the Lower Carniola region in east central Slovenia. The municipality is included in the Lower Sava statistical region....

 in the Sevnica

Sevnica

Sevnica is a town and a municipality in central Slovenia.The town itself is situated on the left bank of the Sava River, and is one of the three major settlements in the Lower Sava Valley. The municipality is now included in the Lower Sava statistical region...

 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 east central 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 area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola was a kreis of the historical Habsburg crown land of Carniola from 1849 till 1919 and is nowadays a traditional region of Slovenia. Its center is Novo Mesto, while other urban centers include Kočevje, Grosuplje, Krško, Trebnje, Mirna, Črnomelj, Semič, and Metlika.-See also:* Upper...

. The municipality is now included in the Lower Sava statistical region

Spodnjeposavska statistical region

The Lower Sava statistical region is a statistical region in Slovenia. It is almost identical with the Posavje region. The largest town in the region is Krško. It is the second smallest region in Slovenia, but it has very good traffic connections...

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The local church, built on an isolated location to the northwest of the settlement core, is dedicated to Saint James  and belongs to the Škocjan pri Novem Mestu

Škocjan

Škocjan is a settlement and a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. It should not be confused with Škocjan Caves, which is located in a different part of the country, near Divača...

 parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

. It dates to the 16th or 17th century.

External links

• Telče at Geopedia