Belca Explained

Official Name:Belca
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Slovenia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Slovenia
Subdivision Type1:Traditional region
Subdivision Name1:Upper Carniola
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Upper Carniola
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Kranjska Gora
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:163
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.4752°N 13.9108°W
Elevation M:692.4
Footnotes:[1]

Belca (pronounced as /sl/) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kranjska Gora in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

History

In August 1963, the Belca Gorge north of the village was the site where the anti-communist revolutionary Janez Toplišek (1930–1965) was ambushed by the Yugoslav secret police and taken into custody.[2] Toplišek had crossed the border from Austria with weapons and propaganda material, unwittingly accompanied by two Yugoslav secret police agents. After his arrest he was initially imprisoned with other enemies of the communist regime at the Goli Otok prison camp, and then moved to the Stara Gradiška prison, where he was killed during an escape attempt on November 15, 1965.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Book: Omerza . Igor . Od Belce do Velikovca ali Kako sem vzljubil bombo . 2011 . Mohorjeva . Klagenfurt . 10-11.
  3. Sajovic . Bogdan . Od Belce do Velikovca . Demokracija . June 16, 2011 . 24 . 16 . 50-52.