Municipality of Idrija
The Municipality of Idrija is a municipality in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia. Located in the traditional region of the Slovenian Littoral and in the Gorizia Statistical Region, the municipality covers 293.7 km2 of mostly forested terrain at the meeting point of the Dinaric and Alpine mountain chains.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: municipality of Slovenia with 11,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Idrija Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wild Lake and Miner’s House, Idrija.
Wild Lake
Lake
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.
Wild Lake is a lake near Idrija in western Slovenia and a karst spring of the Vauclusian type. The lake is the source of the Jezernica River, a tributary of the Idrijca and, at 55 metres long, the shortest river in Slovenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Idrija and Spodnja Idrija.
Idrija
Idrija lies among the green hills of western Slovenia in the Julian Alps. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is between the Alpine and the Karst regions.
Spodnja Idrija
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Spodnja Idrija is a settlement on the right bank of the Idrijca River in the Municipality of Idrija in the traditional Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Spodnja Idrija is situated 4 km northeast of Municipality of Idrija.
Čekovnik
Village
Photo: Andrejj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Čekovnik is a dispersed settlement in the hills west of Idrija in the traditional Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Municipality of Idrija
- Location: Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Municipality of Idrija” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيدرييا”
- Catalan: “Municipi de Idrija”
- Cebuano: “Idrija”
- Chinese: “Idrija Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “伊德里亚市镇”
- Chinese: “伊德里亞”
- Chinese: “伊德里亞市鎮”
- Croatian: “Općina Idrija”
- Czech: “Občina Idrija”
- Dutch: “Idrija”
- Esperanto: “Občina Idrija”
- Georgian: “იდრია”
- German: “Gemeinde Idrija”
- Hebrew: “אידריה”
- Hungarian: “Idrija község”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Idrija”
- Italian: “Comune di Idria”
- Italian: “Idria”
- Japanese: “イドリヤ”
- Korean: “이드리야”
- Latin: “Municipium Hydriae”
- Lombard: “Idria”
- Macedonian: “Општина Идрија”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Idrija Kong-siā”
- Mingrelian: “იიდრიია”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Idrija kommune”
- Persian: “ایدرییا”
- Persian: “شهرداری ادریجا”
- Polish: “Gmina Idrija”
- Romanian: “Comuna Idrija”
- Russian: “Идрия”
- Serbian: “Opština Idrija”
- Serbian: “Идрија”
- Serbian: “Општина Идрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Idrija”
- Slovenian: “Idrija”
- Slovenian: “Občina Idrija”
- Thai: “เทศบาลอีดริยา”
- Turkish: “Idrija”
- Ukrainian: “Ідрія”
- Venetian: “Idria”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Idrija”
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