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 (in Slovenian pronounced as /təɾdɔˈboːi̯tsi/; German: Terdoboitzen[2]) is a settlement in the Haloze Hills in the Municipality of Videm in eastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belonged to the Styria region. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.[3] It includes the hamlets of Spodnji Trdobojci (German: Unterterdoboitzen) and Zgornji Trdobojci (German: 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