Davča
Davča is a scattered settlement in the Municipality of Železniki in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Davščica Creek flows past the settlement. The Cerkno Ski Resort is partially located in the settlement.Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 301 residents
- Description: place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia
- Also known as: “Davča, Železniki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Franja Partisan Hospital and Cerkno Ski Resort.
Franja Partisan Hospital
Ruins
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Franja Partisan Hospital was a secret World War II hospital at Dolenji Novaki near Cerkno in western Slovenia. It was run by the Slovene Partisans from December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist Italian and Nazi German forces. Franja Partisan Hospital is situated 3 km south of Davča.
Cerkno Ski Resort
Cerkno Ski Resort is the Slovenian most modern ski resort on Črni Vrh nad Novaki hill near Davča opened in 1984. It is located 10 km away from centre of municipality Cerkno.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gorenji Novaki and Dolenji Novaki.
Gorenji Novaki
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gorenji Novaki is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Cerkno in the traditional Littoral region of Slovenia. Gorenji Novaki is situated 3½ km south of Davča.
Dolenji Novaki
Village
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.
Dolenji Novaki is a village in the Municipality of Cerkno in the traditional Littoral region of Slovenia. Dolenji Novaki is situated 3½ km south of Davča.
Poljane
Hamlet
Poljane is a small settlement on the road from Cerkno towards Dolenji Novaki in the traditional Littoral region of Slovenia. Poljane is situated 4 km southwest of Davča.
Davča
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Municipality of Železniki, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.18014° or 46° 10′ 49″ northLongitude
14.03478° or 14° 2′ 5″ eastPopulation
301Elevation
997 metres (3,271 feet)Open location code
8FRP52JM+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 3140400928OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3202174Wikidata ID
Q4779027
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Davča” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Davča”
- Cebuano: “Davča”
- Chechen: “Давча”
- Croatian: “Davča”
- Dutch: “Davca”
- Dutch: “Davča”
- French: “Davča”
- German: “Deutschau”
- Irish: “Davča”
- Italian: “Davča”
- Macedonian: “Давча”
- Polish: “Davča”
- Romanian: “Davča, Železniki”
- Romanian: “Davča”
- Serbian: “Давча”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Davča”
- Slovenian: “Davča, Železniki”
- Slovenian: “Davča”
- Tatar: “Давча”
- Ukrainian: “Давча”
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