Central Europe
Slovenia
Ajdovščina Municipality

Lokavec

Lokavec is a settlement on the northern edge of the Vipava Valley northwest of in the Littoral region of . It lies below the slopes of Mount Čaven, below the Slano Blato Landslide.
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Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
  • Type: Village with 1,120 residents
  • Description: village in Ajdovščina municipality, Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Loavizza”, “Locavizza di Aidússina”, “Lokavec, Ajdovščina”, “Lokavitz”, and “Lokovec”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ajdovščina Airfield and The Roman fortress Castra.

Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a local airfield and tourist aerodrome in the Vipava Valley, . The field was originally built for the Battles of the Isonzo and is today home to the Josip Križaj Ajdovščina Aeroclub and the ultralight aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel.

Photo: Octopus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castra ad Fluvium Frigidum, also simply Castra, referred to as mutatio Castra in Itinerarium Burdigalense, was a Late-Roman fortress which constituted the centre of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum, an Ancient Roman defensive system of walls and towers stretching from the Gail Valley to the mountain range.

Railway station
Photo: Ajznponar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the principal railway station in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Slokarji and Stomaž.

Hamlet
is a formerly independent settlement in the in southwestern . It is now part of the village of Lokavec. It is part of the traditional region of the Littoral and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the .

Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY 4.0.
is a in the hills north of the Vipava Valley in the in the Littoral region of . It is made up of several smaller hamlets: Brith, Dolenja Vas, Hrib, Ljubljanica, Griže, Črnigoji, Bratini, and Batagelji.

Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
is a settlement in the Vipava Valley, 3 km west of in the Littoral region of .

Lokavec

Latitude
45.90212° or 45° 54′ 8″ north
Longitude
13.87978° or 13° 52′ 47″ east
Population
1,120
Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)
Open location code
8FQMWV2H+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 811512288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3196268
Wiki­data ID
Q2736866
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In Other Languages

From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Lokavec” goes by many names.
  • Bosnian: “Lokavec”
  • Bulgarian: “Локавец”
  • Cebuano: “Lokavec”
  • Chechen: “Локавець (Айдовщина)”
  • Chechen: “Локавець”
  • Croatian: “Lokavec”
  • Dutch: “Lokavec”
  • French: “Lokavec”
  • German: “Loccaviz”
  • German: “Lokavec”
  • German: “Thalberg”
  • Hungarian: “Lokavec”
  • Irish: “Lokavec”
  • Italian: “Locavizza di Aidussina”
  • Italian: “Locavizza”
  • Italian: “Lokavec”
  • Macedonian: “Локавец (Ајдовшчина)”
  • Macedonian: “Локавец”
  • Polish: “Lokavec”
  • Portuguese: “Lokavec”
  • Romanian: “Lokavec, Ajdovščina”
  • Romanian: “Lokavec”
  • Russian: “Локавец”
  • Serbian: “Lokavec”
  • Serbian: “Локавец”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lokavec (Ajdovščina)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lokavec”
  • Slovenian: “Lokavec pri Ajdovščini”
  • Slovenian: “Lokavec, Ajdovščina”
  • Slovenian: “Lokavec”
  • Tatar: “Локавець (Айдовщина)”
  • Tatar: “Локавець”
  • Ukrainian: “Локавец”
  • Ukrainian: “Локавець”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lokavec”. Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.