Grgar
Grgar is a village in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located under Holy Mount, above the Soča Valley and below the Banjšice Plateau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 772 residents
- Description: place in Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia
- Also known as: “Gargaro” and “Gegar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sveta Gora and Sveta Gora.
Sveta Gora
Peak
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Sveta Gora is a settlement in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It encompasses Holy Mount, above the Soča Valley and southwest of the Banjšice Plateau.
Sabotin
Peak
Photo: T137, Public domain.
Sabotin is 609-metre-high mountain ridge overlooking Gorizia, Nova Gorica, and Solkan on the border between Slovenia and Italy. At its foot stands the Solkan Bridge spanning the Soča River. Sabotin is situated 3 km west of Grgar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soča Valley and Ravnica.
Soča Valley
Photo: Malenki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Soča or Isonzo is a 138-kilometre long river that flows through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy. An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of 876 metres.
Ravnica
Village
Ravnica is a village in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located on the high Trnovo Forest Plateau, overlooking the villages of Grgar and Čepovan. Ravnica is situated 2½ km southeast of Grgar.
Podgozd
Village
Podgozd is a small settlement northwest of Trnovo in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. Podgozd is situated 3½ km east of Grgar.
Grgar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nova Gorica, Coast and Karst, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.99816° or 45° 59′ 53″ northLongitude
13.67322° or 13° 40′ 24″ eastPopulation
772Elevation
288 metres (945 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI GRGOpen location code
8FQMXMXF+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 921490331OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Grgar” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Grgar”
- Bulgarian: “Гргар”
- Cebuano: “Grgar”
- Chechen: “Гргар”
- Croatian: “Grgar”
- Dutch: “Grgar”
- French: “Grgar”
- German: “Gregor”
- German: “Grgar”
- Hungarian: “Grgar”
- Irish: “Grgar”
- Italian: “Gargaro”
- Italian: “Grgar”
- Macedonian: “Гргар”
- Polish: “Grgar”
- Romanian: “Grgar”
- Russian: “Гргар”
- Serbian: “Гргар”
- Slovenian: “Grgar”
- Swedish: “Grgar”
- Tatar: “Гргар”
- Ukrainian: “Гргар”
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