Official Name: | Ples |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Upper Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Slovenia |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Moravče |
Area Total Km2: | 1.34 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 65 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.1395°N 14.7881°W |
Elevation M: | 432 |
Postal Code: | 1251 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Ples (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈplɛs/) is a settlement in the Municipality of Moravče in central Slovenia. It lies east of Moravče on the main road to Izlake. The area is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[2]
Ples was attested in historical sources as Pless in 1347, Plyess in 1355, and Plezz in 1383, among other spellings.[3]
Ples was a hamlet of Zgornja Dobrava until 1953, when it was administratively separated and made a village in its own right.[4] [5]