Municipality of Kostel
The Municipality of Kostel is a municipality in southern Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Vas. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. It borders Croatia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 13 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Kostel” and “Kostel Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kostel Castle and Zdihovo.
Kostel Castle
Castle
Photo: Darkoj82, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kostel Castle is a castle above the settlement of Kostel in southeastern Slovenia. It is located on a steep hill above the Kolpa River, not far from the Croatian border.
Zdihovo
Dwelling
Zdihovo is an abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was inhabited by Gottschee Germans. At the start of the Second World War its original population was expelled.
Nežica
Waterfall
Photo: Ljuba brank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nežica is a waterfall, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Municipality of Kostel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mavrc and Dolenja Žaga.
Mavrc
Village
Photo: Upwinxp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mavrc is a small settlement on the left bank of the Kolpa River in the Municipality of Kostel in southern Slovenia. Kostel Castle dominates the cliff to the north above the settlement.
Dolenja Žaga
Village
Dolenja Žaga is an abandoned settlement on the left bank of the Kolpa River north of Kostel in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Doluš
Village
Doluš is an uninhabited settlement in Croatia, located in the municipality of Brod Moravice, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
Municipality of Kostel
- Categories: municipality of Slovenia and locality
- Location: Kostel, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.50814° or 45° 30′ 29″ northLongitude
14.91049° or 14° 54′ 38″ eastPopulation
13Elevation
357 metres (1,171 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI KOSOpen location code
8FQPGW56+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 875919535OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Municipality of Kostel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية كوستيل”
- Bengali: “কস্টেল পৌরসভা”
- Bosnian: “Kostel”
- Bulgarian: “Костел”
- Cebuano: “Kostel”
- Chechen: “Костел (община)”
- Chechen: “Костел”
- Chinese: “Kostel Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “科斯泰尔市镇”
- Croatian: “Općina Kostel”
- Czech: “Občina Kostel”
- Danish: “Kostel Municipality”
- Dutch: “Kostel”
- Esperanto: “Občina Kostel”
- Finnish: “Kostelin kunta”
- French: “Kostel”
- French: “municipalité de Kostel”
- German: “Gemeinde Kostel”
- German: “Grafenwarth in der Unterkrain”
- German: “Grafenwarth”
- Greek: “Κοστέλ”
- Gujarati: “કોસ્ટેલ મ્યુનિસિપાલિટી”
- Hindi: “कोस्टल नगर पालिका”
- Hungarian: “Kostel község”
- Indonesian: “Kotamadya Kostel”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Kostel”
- Italian: “Comune di Kostel”
- Japanese: “コステル”
- Kannada: “ಕೋಸ್ಟಲ್ ಪುರಸಭೆ”
- Korean: “코스텔 지방 자치제”
- Latvian: “Kostelas pašvaldība”
- Lithuanian: “Kostelo savivaldybė”
- Lombard: “Kostel”
- Macedonian: “Општина Костел”
- Malay: “Kostel Municipality”
- Marathi: “कोस्टल म्युन्सिपाल्टी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kostel Kong-siā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kostel kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kostel”
- Persian: “شهرداری کوستل”
- Polish: “Gmina Kostel”
- Portuguese: “Kostel”
- Romanian: “Comuna Kostel”
- Russian: “Костел”
- Scots: “Municipality o Kostel”
- Serbian: “Opština Kostel”
- Serbian: “Костел”
- Serbian: “Општина Костел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kostel”
- Sinhala: “කොස්ටෙල් නගර සභාව”
- Slovenian: “Občina Kostel”
- Spanish: “Municipalidad del Kostel”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Kostel”
- Swedish: “Kostel kommun”
- Tamil: “கொஸ்டெல் நகராட்சி”
- Tatar: “Костел (община)”
- Tatar: “Костел”
- Telugu: “కోస్టెల్ పురపాలక సంస్థ”
- Telugu: “కోస్టెల్ మున్సిపాలిటీ”
- Thai: “เทศบาลคอสแต็ว”
- Turkish: “Kostel”
- Ukrainian: “Костел”
- Urdu: “کوستیل میونسپلٹی”
- Venetian: “Kostel”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị tự trị Kostel”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Kostel”
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