Konca Vas
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Konca Vas ({{IPA|sl|ˈkoːntsa ˈʋaːs|pron}}; {{langx|sl|Konca vas}}, formerly KoncaLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 42. or Konec;Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS. {{langx|de|Ort}}Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.) is a small settlement immediately north of Stara Cerkev in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[http://www.obcinakocevje.si/ Kočevje municipal site] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402034314/http://www.obcinakocevje.si/ |date=April 2, 2010 }}
Geography
Konca Vas is a compact village on a low rise. The soil is loamy and fertile. The settlement is surrounded by fields used to grow wheat and barley.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 228.
Name
The Slovene name of the settlement is derived from the Slovene common noun konec 'upper end of a valley',Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 198. referring to the village's location as the hills narrow near it. The name of the settlement was officially changed from Konec to Konca vas in 1952. However, the name Konca vas was already in use much earlier.Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26. The German name Ort has the same semantic motivation; the word now simply means 'place, location' but originally referred to an 'outer end' or 'point'.Seebold, Elmar. 1999. Kluge Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 23rd edition. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 604.
History
The land registry of 1574 recorded four full farms divided into eight half-farms in Konca Vas. The original Gottschee German population of the village was evicted in the fall of 1941, after which the village stood empty. House no. 13 in the village has a plaque stating that Jože Šeško, an agitator for the Liberation Front, was captured there on April 28, 1942 (he was shot in Ljubljana on May 11, 1942). Konca Vas was resettled after the Second World War by Slovenes from various areas.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Konca Vas include:
References
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External links
- {{commons category-inline|Konca Vas}}
- [https://www.geopedia.world/#T12_L362_F2473:5690_x1652608.5560468822_y5728124.356884029_s15_b2345 Konca Vas on Geopedia]
- [http://www.gottscheerland.at/ortsplaene/Ort.pdf Pre–World War II map of Konca Vas with oeconyms and family names]
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