Official Name: | Brezje pri Vinjem Vrhu |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
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: | Southeast Slovenia |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Semič |
Area Total Km2: | 0.78 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 20 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.6312°N 15.1876°W |
Elevation M: | 215 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Brezje pri Vinjem Vrhu (pronounced as /sl/; de|Bresie[2]) is a settlement in the hills south of Semič in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The Municipality of Semič is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[3]
Brezje pri Vinjem Vrhu was attested in written sources as Bresia in 1490.[4] The name Brezje literally means 'birch woods', derived from the common noun breza 'birch'. Like similar toponyms in Slovenia (e.g., Brezova, Brezovec, Brezovci), it originally referred to the local vegetation.[5]
A Bronze Age settlement was identified in the area in a 1986 archaeological field survey.[6]