Pivka
Pivka is a small town in Slovenia in the Pivka Basin in the Karst region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Pivka. It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,060 residents
- Description: settlement in Slovenia
- Also known as: “Pietro del Carso”, “San Peter”, and “Sveti Peter na Krasu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pivka railway station and Park of military history.
Pivka railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ajznponar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pivka railway station is a significant railway station in Pivka, Slovenia. It is located on the main railway line between Ljubljana, Slovenia and Trieste, Italy…
Park of military history
Museum
The Pivka Park of Military History is a military museum in the town in Pivka, Slovenia. It is operated jointly by the Municipality of Pivka and the Military Museum of the Slovene Armed Forces.
Primož
Peak
Primož is a 718-meter high hill overgrown with trees, and is a part of a ridge separating the Pivka Basin from the Reka Valley. It is located in the Municipality of Pivka in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petelinje and Gradec.
Petelinje
Village
Petelinje is a settlement north of Pivka in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew and belongs to the Parish of Pivka.
Gradec
Village
Gradec is a small village north of Pivka in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. The local church in the settlement is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and belongs to the Parish of Pivka.
Klenik
Village
Photo: Yerpo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Klenik is a village east of Pivka in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Leonard and belongs to the Parish of Trnje.
Pivka
- Categories: human settlement, cultural heritage site in Slovenia, and locality
- Location: Municipality of Pivka, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.68251° or 45° 40′ 57″ northLongitude
14.19535° or 14° 11′ 43″ eastPopulation
2,060Elevation
550 metres (1,804 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI LZGOpen location code
8FQPM5MW+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 270516271OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Vietnamese—“Pivka” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Pivka”
- Cebuano: “Pivka”
- Chechen: “Пивка”
- Chinese: “皮夫卡”
- Croatian: “Pivka”
- Dutch: “Pivka”
- French: “Pivka”
- German: “Pivka”
- German: “Sankt Peter im Karst”
- German: “St. Peter in Krain”
- Greek: “Πίβκα”
- Irish: “Pivka”
- Italian: “San Pietro del Carso” (historical)
- Japanese: “ピフカ”
- Latin: “Villa Sancti Petri super Piucha”
- Macedonian: “Пивка”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pivka i Slovenia”
- Polish: “Pivka”
- Romanian: “Pivka”
- Russian: “Пивка”
- Serbian: “Пивка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pivka”
- Slovenian: “Občina Pivka”
- Slovenian: “Pivka”
- Slovenian: “Šent Peter na Krasu”
- Slovenian: “Šent Peter” (historical)
- Slovenian: “Šentpeter na Krasu”
- Spanish: “Pivka”
- Swedish: “Pivka”
- Tatar: “Пивка”
- Thai: “ปีวกา”
- Ukrainian: “Пивка”
- Vietnamese: “Pivka”
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