Turje, Hrastnik

Place in Styria, Slovenia

Turje Sveti Štefan (until 1955)
Village of Turje with Saint Stephen's Church
46°7′48.65″N 15°9′3.68″E / 46.1301806°N 15.1510222°E / 46.1301806; 15.1510222
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Central Sava
Municipality	Hrastnik
Area
• Total	5 km² (2 sq mi)
Elevation	567.4 m (1,861.5 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	273
^[1]

Turje (pronounced [ˈtuːɾjɛ]) is a settlement in the hills southeast of Dol in the Municipality of Hrastnik in central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region.^[2]

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Štefan (literally, 'Saint Stephen') to Turje 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.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Church

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Stephen and belongs to the Parish of Dol pri Hrastniku.^[6]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Turje include:

Janko Orožen (1891–1989), historian

References

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ Hrastnik municipal site
^ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
^ Premk, F. 2004. Slovenska versko-krščanska terminologija v zemljepisnih imenih in spremembe za čas 1921–1967/68. Besedoslovne lastnosti slovenskega jezika: slovenska zemljepisna imena. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, pp. 113–132.
^ Urbanc, Mimi, & Matej Gabrovec. 2005. Krajevna imena: poligon za dokazovanje moči in odraz lokalne identitete. Geografski vestnik 77(2): 25–43.
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 2946

External links

Turje on Geopedia

Municipality of Hrastnik

Settlements

Administrative seat: Hrastnik

Current	Boben Brdce Brnica Čeče Dol pri Hrastniku Gore Kal Kovk Krištandol Krnice Marno Plesko Podkraj Prapretno pri Hrastniku Šavna Peč Studence Turje Unično
Former	Spodnji Kal Zgornji Kal