| Official Name: | Hrovača |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| 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: | Ribnica |
| Area Total Km2: | 6.51 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 198 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.7371°N 14.7369°W |
| Elevation M: | 490.1 |
| Postal Code: | 1310 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Hrovača (in Slovenian pronounced as /xɾɔˈʋaːtʃa/; German: Krobatsch[2]) is a settlement immediately to the southeast of the town of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. It lies just south of the town of Ribnica. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[3]
The name Hrovača is derived from the word Hrvat 'Croat'. Like similar names (e.g., Hrvatini and Hrobači, a hamlet of Dobravlje), it originally referred to medieval Croatian resettlement from the south connected with Ottoman occupation of the central Balkans.[4] In the past the German name was Krobatsch.[2]
Hrovača is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Bašelj Shaft 2 Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Brezno na Bašlju 2) is located in the woods northeast of Hrovača, about 2km (01miles) south of Podtabor, on the north slope of Chicken Hill (Slovenian: Kurji grič). Spelunkers have reported human remains at the site.[5]
The local church, built next to the cemetery on the southern outskirts of the settlement, is dedicated to the Holy Trinity (Slovenian: sveta Trojica) and belongs to the parish of Ribnica. It was built in 1909 on the site of a 16th-century church originally dedicated to Saint James.[6]