Brezje, Sevnica

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Brezje
View of Brezje from Hinjce
View of Brezje from Hinjce
Brezje is located in Slovenia
Brezje
Brezje
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°59′25.03″N 15°11′49.58″E / 45.9902861°N 15.1971056°E / 45.9902861; 15.1971056
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionLower Carniola
Statistical regionLower Sava
MunicipalitySevnica
Area
  Total
0.25 km2 (0.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)
  Total
17
  Density68/km2 (180/sq mi)
[1]

Brezje (pronounced [ˈbɾeːzjɛ]) is a small village in the Municipality of Sevnica in southeastern Slovenia. It lies on a small rise east of Krmelj and the village of Hinjce and west of the Mirna River. The village is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.[2] One of the two roads from Krmelj to the main road linking Mokronog and Sevnica runs through the settlement, in the valley south of the village core. A cattle trough stands on its right side at the crossroad leading from it into the village. It was built in the 1940s.[3][4]

Brezje was attested in written sources as Pirkch in 1455 and Pirgk in 1467.[5] The name Brezje literally means 'birch woods', derived from the common noun breza 'birch'. Like similar toponyms in Slovenia (e.g., Brezova, Brezovec, Brezovci), it originally referred to the local vegetation.[6]

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