Kunšperk

Kunšperk (; ) is a settlement on the right bank of the Sotla River in the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Savinja Statistical Region.

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Place details

Locality: Kunšperk
Region: Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli
Country: Slovenija
Population: 117

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Key facts

Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.official_name: Kunšperk
Settlement.pushpin_map: Slovenia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: 25px Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Traditional region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Styria
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Statistical region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lower Sava
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Bistrica ob Sotli
Settlement.area_total_km2: 4.06
Settlement.population_as_of: 2020
Settlement.population_total: 102
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Ethnicities

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Name
History
Churches
Kunšperk Castle
References
External links

==Name== Kunšperk was first attested in written sources as Chuongisperch in 1167 (and as Chunigesperch in 1178 and Küngesberc in 1227). The name originally referred to the castle above the settlement. Until 1918, the settlement was officially known as Königsberg (literally, 'king's mountain') in German. The name was borrowed from Bavarian Middle High German into Slovene as *Kun(i)gšperk and then simplified to Kunšperk.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kunšperk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.