Uršlja Gora
Encyclopedia
Uršlja Gora is a dispersed settlement
on the northern slopes of a hill with the same name to the southwest of Kotlje
in the Ravne na Koroškem
Municipality
in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia
. The local church from which the settlement and the mountain get their name is dedicated to Saint Ursula
, but lies under the peak of the hill in the neighbouring settlement of Jazbina
.
Dispersed settlement
A dispersed settlement is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world....
on the northern slopes of a hill with the same name to the southwest of Kotlje
Kotlje
Kotlje is a village in the hills to the south of Ravne na Koroškem in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia.The Parish Church in the village is dedicated to Saint Margaret and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor...
in the Ravne na Koroškem
Ravne na Koroškem
Ravne na Koroškem is a town and a municipality in northern Slovenia. Until 1918, the town was part of the Duchy of Carinthia. It is the largest town in the traditional Slovenian province of Carinthia and its capital. Its Slovene name means 'Ravne in Carinthia', in order to distinguish it from...
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 the Carinthia region in northern 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 local church from which the settlement and the mountain get their name is dedicated to Saint Ursula
Saint Ursula
Saint Ursula is a British Christian saint. Her feast day in the extraordinary form calendar of the Catholic Church is October 21...
, but lies under the peak of the hill in the neighbouring settlement of Jazbina
Jazbina, Črna na Koroškem
Jazbina is a dispersed settlement in the hills to the east of Črna na Koroškem in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia.There is a church in the settlement, built on the Uršlja Gora peak at an altitude of 1699 m. It is dedicated to Saint Ursula and belongs to the Stari trg Parish...
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