Straža
Straža is a settlement on the left bank of the Krka River in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in southeastern Slovenia. It is the largest settlement and the centre of the Municipality of Straža and is included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,000 residents
- Description: settlement in Slovenia
- Also known as: “Gorenja Straža”, “Gornja Straža”, “Ober-Strascha”, “Straza”, and “Straža, Straža”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Assumption of Mary Church and Novo Mesto - Prečna Airport.
Novo Mesto - Prečna Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: ModriDirkac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novo Mesto - Prečna Airport is an aerodrome, which is situated 3 km northeast of Straža.
Hotel Kristal, Dolenjske Toplice
Hotel
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Hotel Kristal, Dolenjske Toplice is situated 3 km south of Straža.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vavta Vas and Rumanja Vas.
Vavta Vas
Village
Photo: Vavtovec, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vavta Vas is a village on the right bank of the Krka River in the Municipality of Straža in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola.
Rumanja Vas
Village
Photo: Andrejj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rumanja Vas is a village in the Municipality of Straža in southeastern Slovenia. It lies on the right bank of the Krka River on the regional road from Dolenjske Toplice to Novo Mesto.
Jurka Vas
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Jurka Vas is a village on the right bank of the Krka River in the Municipality of Straža in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Straža
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Municipality of Straža, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.78369° or 45° 47′ 1″ northLongitude
15.07304° or 15° 4′ 23″ eastPopulation
2,000Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI GSZOpen location code
8FQQQ3MF+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1826078965OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Straža” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Straža”
- Cebuano: “Straža”
- Chechen: “Стража”
- Chinese: “斯特拉扎”
- Croatian: “Straža”
- Dutch: “Straža”
- French: “Straža”
- German: “Oberstrascha”
- German: “Strascha”
- German: “Straža”
- German: “Wardenegg”
- Hungarian: “Straža”
- Irish: “Straža”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Straža”
- Polish: “Straža”
- Romanian: “Straža, Straža”
- Romanian: “Straža”
- Russian: “Стража”
- Serbian: “Стража (Словенија)”
- Serbian: “Стража”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Straža”
- Slovenian: “Straža, Straža”
- Slovenian: “Straža”
- Tatar: “Стража”
- Thai: “สตราฌา”
- Ukrainian: “Стража”
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