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Municipality of Cerkno

The Municipality of Cerkno is a municipality in the Littoral region of . The seat of the municipality is the town of . The municipality has around 5,000 people.
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  • Type: Village with 1,490 residents
  • Description: municipality of Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Cerkno” and “municipality of Cerkno”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Franja Partisan Hospital and Saint George Churh, Lazec.

Ruins
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
was a secret World War II hospital at near in western . 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. is situated 4 km northeast of Municipality of Cerkno.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 4½ km south of Municipality of Cerkno.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ravne pri Cerknem and Planina pri Cerknem.

Village
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is a settlement west of in the traditional Littoral region of . The in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Ulrich and belongs to the Diocese.

Village
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is a in the hills east of in the traditional Littoral region of .

Hamlet
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is a northeast of in the traditional Littoral region of . The local church is dedicated to the Holy Spirit and belongs to the Parish of Cerkno. It was built in 1723 by the builder Matija Maček from the Poljane Valley.

Municipality of Cerkno

Latitude
46.128° or 46° 7′ 41″ north
Longitude
13.9881° or 13° 59′ 17″ east
Population
1,490
Elevation
619 metres (2,031 feet)
Open location code
8FRM4XHQ+56
Open­Street­Map ID
node 385077699
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3239091
Wiki­data ID
Q13220435
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Municipality of Cerkno” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية تسيركنو”
  • Bengali: “চেরকনো পৌরসভা”
  • Catalan: “Municipi de Cerkno”
  • Cebuano: “Cerkno”
  • Chinese: “Cerkno Kong-siā”
  • Chinese: “采爾克諾”
  • Chinese: “采爾克諾市鎮”
  • Croatian: “Općina Cerkno”
  • Czech: “Občina Cerkno”
  • Danish: “Cerkno Municipality”
  • Dutch: “Cerkno (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Cerkno”
  • Esperanto: “Občina Cerkno”
  • Finnish: “Cerknon kunta”
  • French: “Cerkno”
  • French: “commune de Cerkno”
  • German: “Gemeinde Cerkno”
  • German: “Kirchheim”
  • German: “Občina Cerkno”
  • Greek: “Κέρκνον”
  • Gujarati: “સેર્ક્નો મ્યુનિસિપાલિટી”
  • Hebrew: “צרקנו”
  • Hindi: “सेर्क्नो नगरपालिका”
  • Hungarian: “Cerkno község”
  • Indonesian: “Kotamadya Cerkno”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Cerkno”
  • Italian: “Circhina”
  • Italian: “Comune di Circhina”
  • Japanese: “ツェルクノ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆರ್ಕ್ನೋ ಪುರಸಭೆ”
  • Korean: “체르크노 지방 자치제”
  • Korean: “체르크노”
  • Latin: “Municipium Circhinae”
  • Latvian: “Cerkno pašvaldība”
  • Lithuanian: “Cerknas”
  • Lithuanian: “Cerkno savivaldybė”
  • Lombard: “Circhina”
  • Macedonian: “Општина Церкно”
  • Malay: “Perbadaran Cerkno”
  • Marathi: “सेरक्नी म्युन्सिपाल्टी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cerkno Kong-siā”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cerko kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cerkno kommune”
  • Persian: “شهرداری سرکنو”
  • Polish: “Gmina Cerkno”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Cerkno”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Cerkno”
  • Russian: “Церкно”
  • Scots: “Municipality o Cerkno”
  • Serbian: “Општина Церкно”
  • Serbian: “Церкно”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cerkno”
  • Sinhala: “සර්ක්නෝ නගර සභාව”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Cerkno”
  • Spanish: “Cerkno”
  • Spanish: “municipalidad del Cerkno”
  • Swedish: “Cerkno kommun”
  • Tamil: “சேர்க்கனோ நகராட்சி”
  • Telugu: “సెర్క్నో పురపాలక సంస్థ”
  • Telugu: “సెర్క్నో మున్సిపాలిటీ”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลเซร์กนอ”
  • Turkish: “Cerkno”
  • Ukrainian: “Громада Церкно”
  • Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Церкно”
  • Ukrainian: “Община Церкно”
  • Ukrainian: “Церкно (муніципалітет)”
  • Ukrainian: “Церкно (община)”
  • Ukrainian: “Церкно”
  • Urdu: “بلدیہ تسیرکنو”
  • Urdu: “تسیرکنو”
  • Urdu: “میونسپلٹی تسیرکنو”
  • Venetian: “Circhina”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị tự trị Cerkno”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Cerkno”

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