The Municipality of Komen (; sl, Občina Komen) is a municipality in the

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region of

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, near the

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Komen Komen (, it, Comen or ''Comeno'') is a settlement in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Komen. It is located on the Karst Plateau in the Slovenian Littoral. Name Komen was attested in written sources in 1247 as ''Cominum'' (and ...

. The municipality was established on 6 November 1994, when the former Municipality of Sežana was dissolved into four smaller municipalities (

Divača Divača (; it, Divaccia) is a large nucleated village in the Littoral region of Slovenia, near the Italian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Divača and a railway hub. Geography Divača lies along the A1 motorway and the old main r ...

, Hrpelje-Kozina, Komen, and

Sežana Sežana (; it, Sesana) is a town in the Slovenian Littoral region of Slovenia, near the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Sežana. Sežana is located on the Karst Plateau, from Trieste, Italy, and from Ljubljana, the ...

Settlements

In addition to the municipal seat of Komen, the municipality also includes the following settlements: * Brestovica pri Komnu * Brje pri Komnu * Čehovini * Čipnje * Coljava * Divči * Dolanci * Gabrovica pri Komnu * Gorjansko * Hruševica * Ivanji Grad * Klanec pri Komnu * Kobdilj * Kobjeglava * Koboli * Kodreti * Lisjaki * Lukovec * Mali Dol * Nadrožica * Preserje pri Komnu * Rubije * Šibelji * Škofi * Škrbina * Štanjel * Sveto * Tomačevica * Trebižani * Tupelče * Vale * Večkoti * Volčji Grad * Zagrajec

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in the municipality of Komen include: *

Max Fabiani Maximilian Fabiani, commonly known as Max Fabiani ( it, Massimo, sl, Maks) (29 April 1865 – 12 August 1962) was a cosmopolitan trilingual architect and town planner of mixed Italian-Austrian ancestry, born in the village of Kobdilj near Š ...

, architect *

Franco Giraldi Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Komen, Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia. During the Second World War, still ...

, Italian film director * Anton Mahnič, theologian, activist,

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* Marjan Rožanc, writer and essayist *

Majda Širca Majda Širca Ravnikar (born 20 April 1953) is a Slovenian art historian, journalist and politician. She served as Minister of Culture in the government of Borut Pahor. She was born in Postojna, then part of the People's Republic of Slovenia of ...

, journalist and politician

References

External links

*
Municipality of Komen on Geopedia

Municipal website
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1994 establishments in Slovenia