Brezina, Brežice
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Brezina | |
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  Brezina Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 45°55′34″N 15°35′42″E / 45.92611°N 15.59500°E | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Traditional region | Styria |
| Statistical region | Lower Sava |
| Municipality | Brežice |
| Elevation | 153 m (502 ft) |
Brezina (pronounced [bɾɛˈziːna]; German: Bresina[3]) is a former settlement in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. It is now part of the town of Brežice. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.[4]
Brezina is a linear settlement along the road from Brežice to Sromlje. The soil in the area is loamy, and the agricultural land mostly consists of meadows and low-quality tilled fileds. The soil to the east is more fertile. There were claypits to the southeast, north of the train station, which were used to supply a brickworks.[1][2]
Name
Brezina was attested in historical sources as Graein in 1358. The name probably does not derive from the Slovene common noun breza 'birch', but instead from the old locative *brězě '(on the) bank', semantically corresponding to the 14th-century German name (cf. MHG gereine, a collective of rein 'border, edge, ditch').[5]
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