Maribor (UK: / ˈ m ær ɪ b ɔːr / MARR-ib-or, US: / ˈ m ɑːr-/ MAR-, Slovene: [ˈmáːɾibɔɾ] (), German: [ˈmaːʁiboːɐ̯] (); also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria.It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, the seat of the Drava statistical region and the Eastern ...

Škocjan Caves (pronounced [ˈʃkɔːtsjan]; Slovene: Škocjanske jame, Italian: Grotte di San Canziano) is a cave system in Slovenia.Due to its exceptional significance, Škocjan Caves was entered on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. International scientific circles have thus acknowledged the importance of the caves as one of the natural …

The Morača and Ribnica rivers flow through the city, while the Zeta, Cijevna, Sitnica and Mareza flow nearby. Morača is the largest river in the city, being 70 m or 230 ft wide near downtown, and having carved a 20 m or 66 ft deep canyon for the length of its course through the city.

Name. The river was recorded in antiquity as Aesontius, Sontius, and Isontius.Later attestations include super Sontium (in 507–11), a flumine Isontio (1028), in Lisonçum (1261), an die Ysnicz (1401), and an der Snicz (ca. 1440). The Slovene name Soča is derived from the form *Sǫťa, which was borrowed from Latin (and Romance) Sontius.In turn, this is probably based on the …

The Ljubljanica (pronounced [ljuˈbljáːnitsa]), known in the Middle Ages as the Sava, is a river in the southern part of the Ljubljana Basin in Slovenia.The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, lies on the river.The Ljubljanica rises south of the town of Vrhnika and flows into the Sava River about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) downstream from Ljubljana. Its largest affluent is the Mali Graben Canal.

Zavidovići (Serbian Cyrillic: Завидовићи) is a town and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.It is situated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located between Doboj and Zenica on the confluence of rivers Bosna, Krivaja and Gostović. It sits in a valley surrounded by many mountains of …

Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. . During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic ...

The Vintgar Gorge (Slovene: soteska Vintgar) or Bled Gorge (Blejski vintgar) is a 1.6-kilometer (0.99 mi) gorge in northwestern Slovenia in the municipalities of Gorje and Bled, four kilometers northwest of Bled.Carved by the Radovna River, it is the continuation of the Radovna Valley.The sheer canyon walls are 50 to 100 meters (160 to 330 ft) high, with a total slope measuring …

Krška Vas (pronounced [ˈkəɾʃka ˈʋaːs]; Slovene: Krška vas, German: Munkendorf) is a village on the left bank of the Krka River, at its confluence with the Sava, in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia.The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola.It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.

Etymology. Zachlumia is a derivative of Hum, from Proto-Slavic *xŭlmŭ, borrowed from a Germanic language (cf. Proto-Germanic *hulma-), meaning "Hill". South Slavic Zahumlje is named after the mountain of Hum (za + Hum "behind the Hum"), above Bona, at the mouth of the Buna. [citation needed] The principality is named Zahumlje or Hum in Serbo-Croatian (Serbian …