Fikšinci Explained

Official Name:Fikšinci
Other Name:Fükšinci
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:Prekmurje
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Mura
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Rogašovci
Area Total Km2:3.02
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:184
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.7855°N 16.0008°W
Elevation M:331.5
Footnotes:[1]

Fikšinci (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈfiːkʃintsi/; in older sources also Fukšlinci,[2] Hungarian: Kismáriahavas,[2] German: Fükselsdorf,[3] Prekmurje Slovene: Fükšinci[4]) is a village in the Municipality of Rogašovci in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia.[5]

The local church in the centre of the village is dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows. It is a simple single-nave building with a polygonal apse and a belfry, built in 1850.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-SYFIV41W/13133489-d7a8-46ec-b09a-0e6d646f64bc/PDF Vengušt, Jernej. 1919. Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom. Radgona, p. 6.
  3. Balažic, Janez. 1996. Völker an der Mur. Murska Sobota: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 231.
  4. M. Koletnik: Panonsko lončarsko in kmetijsko izrazje ter druge dialektološke razprave, Bielsko-Biała, Budapest, Kansas, Maribor, Praha 2008. p. 179.
  5. http://obcina-rogasovci.si Rogašovci municipal site
  6. http://rkd.situla.org/ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage