Sakušak Explained

Official Name:Sakušak
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Label Position:left
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:Juršinci
Area Total Km2:2.43
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:203
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.5001°N 15.9815°W
Elevation M:274.9
Footnotes:[1]

Sakušak (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈsaːkuʃak/, in older sources also Sakošak,[2] German: Sakuschak[2]) is a settlement in the Slovene Hills (Slovenian: Slovenske gorice) in the Municipality of Juršinci in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region.[3]

The inventor Johann Puch was born in the village in 1862. The house in which he was born, Sakušak no. 79, has been included by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture on its list of heritage locations.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Book: Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko . 1904 . C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna . Vienna . 238.
  3. http://www.jursinci.si/ Juršinci municipal site
  4. http://rkd.situla.org/ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage