Podplanina (; in older sources also ''Planina'',
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 42.] ,
[Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.] Gottschee German: ''Untrdaubə''
) is a small settlement in the
Municipality of Loški Potok in southern
Slovenia
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, next to the border with
Croatia
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. The
source of the
Čabranka River lies just west of the village. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola
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and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
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.
Loški Potok municipal site
/ref> It stands on terraces above the Čabranka River on steep slopes below Trava Peak (). The settlement consists of a number of hamlets (Pri Kolarjih, Zdolenjci, Pri Kapelici, Hrib) and individual houses (Loka, Banija, Pri Kovačnici, Izvor/Obrh, Pri Drobniču). The core of the settlement is in the hamlet of Pri Kapelici.[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 237.]
Name
The name ''Podplanina'' is derived from a prepositional phrase
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in which the noun has lost its case ending
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nominal ...
: ''pod'' 'below' + ''planina'' 'mountain pasture'. The name therefore means 'below the mountain pasture(s).' The semantics of the Gottschee German name ''Untrdaubə'', derived from the name ''Unter der Alpe'' in the land registry of 1574,
History
Podplanina was founded in the 16th century. The land registry of 1574 states that three farmers lived here, with two full farms and one three-quarters farm.Čabar
Čabar is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia.
Name
Čabar is known as ''Čeber'' in the local dialect. The name is believed to derive from the Illyrian word ''ziaber'' 'clearing'.
History
In the late 19th and early 20th ce ...
area.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Podplanina include:
* Katica Lipovec (1900–?), folk poet
References
External links
Podplanina on Geopedia
{{Loški Potok
Populated places in the Municipality of Loški Potok