Municipality of Žiri
The Municipality of Žiri is a municipality in northwestern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Žiri. The area is part of the traditional Upper Carniola region. The entire municipality is now included in the Upper Carniola Statistical Region.Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
- Type: municipality of Slovenia with 4,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Municipality of Ziri” and “Žiri municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. John the Baptist’s Church and Korita.
Korita
Dwelling
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Korita is a small village in the hills between Idrija and Žiri in Slovenia. It lies within the Municipality of Idrija in the traditional Inner Carniola region.
Sovra
Dwelling
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sovra is a small settlement in the Municipality of Žiri in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It lies in the valley of Žirovnica Creek, a tributary of the Poljane Sora, south of the town of Žiri. Sovra is situated 3½ km south of Municipality of Žiri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Žiri and Jarčja Dolina.
Žiri
Town
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Žiri is a town in northwestern Slovenia. It is the administrative seat of the Municipality of Žiri, created in 1994. Prior to this the town belonged administratively to the area of Škofja Loka.
Jarčja Dolina
Hamlet
Jarčja Dolina is a dispersed settlement in a small valley west of Selo in the Municipality of Žiri in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Rupe, in the eastern part of the settlement, was formerly an independent settlement known as Rupe pri Selu.
Brekovice
Hamlet
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brekovice is a small dispersed settlement south of Žiri in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
Municipality of Žiri
- Location: Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Municipality of Žiri” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيري”
- Bulgarian: “Жири”
- Catalan: “Municipi de Žiri”
- Cebuano: “Občina Žiri”
- Chechen: “Жири (община)”
- Chechen: “Жири”
- Chinese: “Žiri Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “日里市鎮”
- Chinese: “日里市镇”
- Croatian: “Općina Žiri”
- Czech: “Občina Žiri”
- Dutch: “Žiri”
- Esperanto: “Občina Žiri”
- French: “Žiri”
- German: “Gemeinde Žiri”
- German: “Žiri”
- Hungarian: “Žiri község”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Žiri”
- Italian: “comune di Žiri”
- Italian: “Comune di Žiri”
- Italian: “Sairach”
- Japanese: “Žiri”
- Japanese: “ジリ”
- Korean: “지리 (도시)”
- Korean: “지리”
- Lombard: “Žiri”
- Macedonian: “Општина Жири”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Žiri Kong-siā”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Žiri kommune”
- Persian: “ژیری”
- Polish: “Gmina Žiri”
- Polish: “Žiri”
- Portuguese: “Žiri”
- Romanian: “Comuna Žiri”
- Romanian: “Ziri”
- Romanian: “Žiri”
- Russian: “Žiri”
- Russian: “Жири”
- Serbian: “Општина Жири”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Žiri”
- Slovak: “Žiri”
- Slovenian: “Občina Žiri”
- Tatar: “Жири (община)”
- Tatar: “Жири”
- Thai: “เทศบาลชีรี”
- Thai: “เทศบาลฌิรี”
- Turkish: “Žiri”
- Ukrainian: “Жири”
- Venetian: “Žiri”
- Vietnamese: “Žiri”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Žiri”
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