Kuzma, Kuzma Explained

Kuzma
Native Name Lang:sl
Settlement Type:Town and Municipality
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the town of Kuzma in Slovenia
Coordinates:46.8333°N 21°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Slovenia
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Jožef Škalič
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:3.6
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:429
Population As Of:2012
Population Density Km2:118
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset1:+01
Timezone1 Dst:CEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+02

Kuzma (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈkuːzma/) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kuzma in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia, on the borders with Austria and Hungary.

Name

Kuzma was attested in written sources in 1387 as Zalocha and Zaloucha, and as Kuzma in 1763–87. The name Kuzma is derived from the Slovene saint's name Kozma 'Cosmas'.[2] Locally, the settlement is known as Kuzdobljan[2] (in older sources as Kuzdoblan,[3] [4] and in Prekmurje Slovene as Küzdobljan[5]), which is derived through contraction of Koz(ma in) Damijan 'Cosmas and Damian', referring to the local church.[2]

Church

The local church in the village is dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. Since 1964, it has been a parish church. It dates to the first half of the 19th century and was dedicated in 1863.[6] The nave was built upon the plans by the architect Majda Nerima from 28 April 1963 until 1 December that year. That is when the church was used for the worship service for the first time. The interior of the church was decorated in 1964 by the painter Lojze Perko, who used the sgraffito technique.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kuzma . Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia . 2 August 2012 . Place Names.
  2. Book: Snoj . Marko . Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen . 2009 . Modrijan . Ljubljana . 221.
  3. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-PYTQ6LOT/2df1fb92-4aae-4a6d-b994-1c72d1633f77/PDF Domovina 9(53) (30 December 1926): 7.
  4. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-IKDZV7AX/1883e969-1fe4-4f25-a359-0b147cf0e484/PDF Jutro 11(82) (8 April 1930): 5.
  5. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-10R1SL0L/c83d93f0-2a6e-44ae-9249-c7bd7aaeae27/PDF "Živinsko i drobno senje (sejmi) v Sl. Krajini." 1929. Nájszvetejsega Szrca Jezusovoga veliki kalendár za lüdsztvo 26: 103.
  6. http://rkd.situla.org/ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
  7. Book: Skledar, Benjamin . Cerkev sv. Kozme in Damijana v Kuzmi . Slovenian . Sts. Cosmas and Damian Church in Kuzma . Marko . Vajs .