Kunč
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Kunč (; in older sources also Kunče, , Gottscheerish: Kuntschn) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Dolenjske Toplice in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Its territory is now part of the village of Podstenice. Northeast of Kunč there is an ice-filled cave called Ice Cave (). It is connected to Kunč by a path and people would go to the cave for ice during times of drought.
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- 793.7
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1979-00-00
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Kunč (; in older sources also Kunče, , Gottscheerish: Kuntschn) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Dolenjske Toplice in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Its territory is now part of the village of Podstenice. Northeast of Kunč there is an ice-filled cave called Ice Cave (). It is connected to Kunč by a path and people would go to the cave for ice during times of drought.
==Name== The name Kunč is of uncertain origin. It may be derived from the surname Kunz or Künz, which was recorded in the land registry of 1574. Snoj explains the surname Kunz as a hypocorism of Konrad or Gunther.
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