Official Name: | Pokoše |
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: | Styria |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Drava |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Slovenska Bistrica |
Area Total Km2: | 4.39 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 205 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.4162°N 15.6089°W |
Elevation M: | 313.1 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Pokoše (in Slovenian pronounced as /pɔˈkoːʃɛ/) is a village northeast of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in the Drava Statistical Region.[2]
Pokoše is the site of a mass grave from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Velenik Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Velenik) is located about 600m (2,000feet) east of the north freeway exit for Slovenska Bistrica. It contains the remains of civilians from Slovenska Bistrica that were murdered in May 1945 and buried in a former antitank trench.[3]
A number of Roman era burial mounds have been identified in the Velenik area south of the main settlement.[4]