Official Name: | Brezje pri Senušah |
Other Name: | Brezje (until 1953) |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Lower Sava |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Krško |
Area Total Km2: | 1.82 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 80 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.9374°N 15.4378°W |
Elevation M: | 185.2 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Brezje pri Senušah (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈbɾeːzjɛ pɾi sɛˈnuːʃax/) is a small settlement between Leskovec pri Krškem and Senuše in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.[2]
Brezje pri Senušah was attested in written sources as Pirch in 1352, Pirkg in 1442, and Pirkch in 1445.[3] The name of the settlement was changed from Brezje to Brezje pri Senušah in 1953.[4]
A prehistoric Early Iron Age burial ground of five graves has been found in the settlement.[5]