| Official Name: | Sveti Vid |
| Other Name: | Žilce (1955–1991) |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Inner Carniola |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Littoral–Inner Carniola |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Cerknica |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.47 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 46 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.8508°N 14.4605°W |
| Elevation M: | 844.4 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Sveti Vid (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈsʋeːti ˈʋiːt/; in older sources also Žilče pri svetem Vidu,[2] German: Schilze bei Sankt Veit[2] or Schülze[3]) is a small village in the hills northeast of Begunje in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.[4]
Under Austria-Hungary, the settlement was officially known as Žilče pri svetem Vidu (German: Schilze bei Sankt Veit),[2] [5] but in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia it was known as Sveti Vid (literally, 'Saint Vitus') and the name Žilče was used for a hamlet of the settlement.[6] The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Vid nad Cerknico (literally, 'Saint Vitus above Cerknica') to Žilce in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. The name was changed back to Sveti Vid in 1991.[7] [8] [9]
The local parish church, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Vitus and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana.[10]