Zgornja Hajdina is a settlement and the administrative centre of the Municipality

Municipality

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 of Hajdina

Hajdina

Hajdina is a small municipality on the right bank of the river Drava near Ptuj in northeastern Slovenia. Its administrative centre is the village of Zgornja Hajdina. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Podravje statistical region...

 in northeastern Slovenia

Slovenia

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. The area is part of the traditional region of 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...

. It is now included with the rest of the municipality 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 parish church

Parish church

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 in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Martin

Martin of Tours

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 and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It is a late 14th-century church that was much expanded in a rebuilding in 1874.

A number of archaeological site

Archaeological site

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s close to the settlement show that the area has been settled since prehistory

Prehistory

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. Of particular interest are the finds associated with the nearby Roman

Ancient Rome

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 town of Poetovio.

External links

• Zgornja Hajdina at Geopedia