Valburga
Sign in to saveValburga (; ) is a settlement on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Plave and Na Mlaki.
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- Locality
- Valburga
- Region
- Municipality of Medvode
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 540
- Timezone
- Europe/Ljubljana
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Valburga
- Settlement.other_name
- Sveta Valburga (until 1952)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Valburga Slovenia 3.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Upper Carniola
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Medvode
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1.68
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2002
- Settlement.population_total
- 499
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Valburga (; ) is a settlement on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Plave and Na Mlaki.
==Name== Valburga was attested in written sources in 1324 as Sand Walpurch (and as Sand Walpurgen in 1327 and apud Sanctam Walpurgam in 1355). It is named after Saint Walpurga, the patron of the local church. Locally, the settlement is known as Šentomperga. The name of the settlement was changed from Sveta Valburga (literally, 'Saint Walpurga') to Valburga (literally, 'Walpurga') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. In the past the German name was Sankt Walburga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valburga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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