Grahovo ob Bači explained

Official Name:Grahovo ob Bači
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:Slovenian Littoral
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Gorizia
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Tolmin
Area Total Km2:7.47
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:153
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.1564°N 13.8645°W
Elevation M:313.1
Footnotes:[1]

Grahovo ob Bači (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈɡɾaːxɔʋɔ ɔb ˈbaːtʃi/; Italian: Gracova Serravalle[2]) is a village on the Bača River in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia.[3]

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Grahovo to Grahovo ob Bači (literally, 'Grahovo on the Bača River') in 1955.[4] The name is believed to have the same origin as Grahovo in the Municipality of Cerknica. If so, it is probably derived from the personal name Grah, which is still preserved as a surname in Slovenia and is probably borrowed from the Old High German name Gracco. The place name would thus mean 'Grah's (village)'. Another possible derivation is from the common noun *grahovišče 'pea field' via the contracted form *grahovše. Direct derivation from the Slovene common noun grah 'pea' is unlikely because of the rarity of such names and the suffixation pattern.[5]

Church

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anne and belongs to the Koper Diocese.[6]

Other cultural heritage

The village was one of the main filming locations for the 1948 film On Our Own Land.[7] The east end of the Bukovo Tunnel (937m (3,074feet)) on the Bohinj Railway stands in the easternmost part of the settlement's territory.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Popačeno Primorje. 1923. Jutro 4(110) (11 May): 2.
  3. http://www.tolmin.si/ Tolmin municipal site
  4. Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
  5. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 151.
  6. http://kp.rkc.si/dokumenti/zupnije/seznam.pdf Koper Diocese list of churches
  7. Web site: Delo 14 November 2008 60th Anniversary of First Slovene Film . 30 January 2009 . sl . 1 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001230932/http://www.delo.si/clanek/70919/70919 . dead .