Trdobojci Explained

Official Name:Trdobojci
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:Videm
Area Total Km2:3.92
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:103
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.3239°N 15.9256°W
Elevation M:315.2
Footnotes:[1]

Trdobojci (pronounced as /sl/; de|Terdoboitzen[2]) is a settlement in the Haloze Hills in the Municipality of Videm in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.[3] It includes the hamlets of Spodnji Trdobojci (de|Unterterdoboitzen) and Zgornji Trdobojci (de|Oberterdoboitzen).[2]

Name

Trdobojci was attested in written sources in 1440 as Terdowoycz. It is believed to be a plural demonym (via *Tvьrdobǫd-j-ьci) based on the Slavic personal name *Tvьrdobǫdъ, a clipped form of the older *Tvьrdobǫd-je (selo) 'Tvьrdobǫdъ's village'.[4] [5] The first element of the compound name, tvьrd, means 'hard',[6] and the second, bǫdъ, is an imperative of the verb biti;[7] the name Tvьrdobǫdъ thus meant 'be hard'.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Trdobojci include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 235.
  3. http://www.videm.si/ Videm municipal site
  4. Košmrlj, Maja. 1970. Dvočlenska antroponima v slovenskih krajevnih imenih. Onomastica Jugoslavica 2: 102–117.
  5. Torkar, Silvo. 2013. Dvočlenski slovanski antroponimi v slovenski toponimiji. Jezikoslovni zapiski 19(1): 111–128, p. 119.
  6. Bezlaj, France. 2005. Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika, vol. 4, Š–Ž. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, p. 215, s.v. trd.
  7. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 66, s.v. Bodislavci.
  8. http://obcina.videm.si/predstavitev/castni/default.aspx Častni občani Občine Videm