Official Name: | Trnovo |
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: | Slovenian Littoral |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Gorizia |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Nova Gorica |
Area Total Km2: | 15.65 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 305 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.9718°N 13.7436°W |
Elevation M: | 780.8 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Trnovo (pronounced as /sl/ or pronounced as /sl/; Italian: Tarnova della Selva) is a village in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located on the high Trnovo Forest Plateau (Slovenian: Trnovski gozd) in the traditional Slovene Littoral region.[2]
Trnovo is the site of a mass grave from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Zalesnika Shaft Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Brezno Zalesnika), also known as the Wild Apple Shaft Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Brezno za lesniko), is located 1.5km (00.9miles) northeast of the village on the right side of the road to Lokve. It contains the remains of Home Guard and Italian prisoners of war and Slovene civilians murdered in May 1945.[3]
The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows and belongs to the Diocese of Koper.[4]