Municipality of Postojna
The Municipality of Postojna is a municipality in the traditional region of Inner Carniola in southwestern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Postojna.Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: municipality of Slovenia with 15,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Adelsberg”, “Opština Postojna”, and “Postojna”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Postojna Cave and Betal Rock Shelter.
Postojna Cave
Cave
Photo: Lander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Postojna Cave is a 24.34 km long karst cave system near Postojna, southwestern Slovenia. It is the second-longest cave system in the country as well as one of its top tourism sites. The caves were created by the Pivka River.
Betal Rock Shelter
Archaeological site
Photo: Sl-Ziga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Betal Rock Shelter, a karst cave located on the south-eastern edge of the Lower Pivka Valley on a slope just above the road from Postojna to Bukovje, is a site where rich cultural sediment layers with remains of stone tools, artifacts, and numerous fossilized bones of contemporary animals were found.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Postojna and Hrašče.
Postojna
Photo: Donald Judge, CC BY 2.0.
Postojna is a town in the Coast and Karst region of Slovenia, pronounced in Slovenian as 'Post-oy-nah'.
Hrašče
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hrašče is a village west of Postojna in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Veliki Otok
Village
Veliki Otok is a village north of Postojna in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. The entrance to Postojna Cave lies immediately east of the village.
Municipality of Postojna
- Location: Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Municipality of Postojna” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፖስቶይና”
- Arabic: “بلدية بوستوينا”
- Arabic: “بوستوجنا”
- Asturian: “Conceyu de Postoina”
- Azerbaijani: “Postojna”
- Bavarian: “Adelsberg”
- Bengali: “পস্তোনা পৌরসভা”
- Bengali: “পোস্টোজনা”
- Bulgarian: “Постойна”
- Catalan: “Municipi de Postojna”
- Cebuano: “Postojna”
- Chechen: “Постойна (община)”
- Chechen: “Постойна”
- Chinese: “Postojna Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “波斯托伊納”
- Chinese: “波斯托伊納市鎮”
- Chinese: “波斯托伊纳市镇”
- Croatian: “Adelsberg”
- Croatian: “Općina Postojna”
- Czech: “Adelsberg”
- Czech: “Občina Postojna”
- Danish: “Adelsberg”
- Danish: “Postojna Municipality”
- Dutch: “Adelsberg”
- Dutch: “Postojna”
- Esperanto: “Občina Postojna”
- Finnish: “Adelsberg”
- Finnish: “Postojnan kunta”
- French: “Adelsberg”
- French: “municipalité de Postojna”
- French: “Postojna”
- German: “Adelsberg”
- German: “Gemeinde Postojna”
- German: “Postojna”
- Greek: “Adelsberg”
- Greek: “Ποστοτζνά”
- Gujarati: “પોસ્ટોજના મ્યુનિસિપાલિટી”
- Hausa: “Postojna”
- Hebrew: “פוסטוינה”
- Hindi: “पोस्टोयना नगर पालिका”
- Hungarian: “Postojna község”
- Indonesian: “Adelsberg”
- Indonesian: “Kotamadya Postojna”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Postojna”
- Italian: “Comune di Postumia”
- Italian: “Postumia”
- Japanese: “ポストイナ”
- Javanese: “Postojna”
- Kannada: “ಪೋಟೋಜನಾ ಪುರಸಭೆ”
- Kazakh: “Постойна”
- Kirghiz: “Постойна”
- Korean: “포스토이나 지방 자치제”
- Korean: “포스토이나”
- Latin: “Arae Postumiae”
- Latin: “Municipium Postumarum”
- Latvian: “Postojnas pašvaldība”
- Lithuanian: “Adelsberg”
- Lithuanian: “Postoina”
- Lithuanian: “Postoinos savivaldybė”
- Lombard: “Postumia (comun)”
- Lombard: “Postumia”
- Macedonian: “Општина Постојна”
- Malay: “Adelsberg”
- Malay: “Postojna Municipality”
- Malay: “Postojna”
- Marathi: “पोस्टोजने म्युन्सिपाल्टी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Postojna Kong-siā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adelsberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Postojna kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Postojna kommune”
- Oromo: “Postojna”
- Panjabi: “ਪੋਸਟੋਜ਼ਨਾ”
- Persian: “پستینا”
- Polish: “Adelsberg”
- Polish: “Gmina Postojna”
- Portuguese: “Adelsberg”
- Portuguese: “Município de Postojna”
- Portuguese: “Postojna”
- Pushto: “پوستويینا”
- Romanian: “Adelsberg”
- Romanian: “Comuna Postojna”
- Romanian: “Postumia”
- Russian: “Постойна”
- Serbian: “Adelsberg”
- Serbian: “Општина Постојна”
- Serbian: “Постојна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Adelsberg”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Postojna”
- Sinhala: “පොස්ටොජ්නා නගර සභාව”
- Slovenian: “Adelsberg”
- Slovenian: “Občina Postojna”
- Somali: “Postojna”
- Spanish: “Adelsberg”
- Spanish: “Municipalidad del Postojina”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Postojna”
- Spanish: “Postoina”
- Swahili: “Postojna”
- Swedish: “Adelsberg”
- Swedish: “Postojna kommun”
- Tajik: “Постойна”
- Tamil: “Adelsberg”
- Tamil: “பொஸ்டொஜ்னா நகராட்சி”
- Tatar: “Постойна (община)”
- Tatar: “Постойна”
- Telugu: “పోస్టోజ్నా పురపాలక సంస్థ”
- Telugu: “పోస్టోజ్నా మున్సిపాలిటీ”
- Thai: “เทศบาลปอสโตยนา”
- Turkish: “Adelsberg”
- Turkish: “Postojna”
- Ukrainian: “Постойна”
- Urdu: “پوستوجنا میونسپلٹی”
- Urdu: “پوستوینا”
- Uzbek: “Postojna”
- Venetian: “Postumia”
- Vietnamese: “Adelsberg”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị tự trị Postojna”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Postojna”
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Notable Places Nearby
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