Muta (; german: Hohenmauthen) is the largest settlement and the centre of the

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of northern

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. Traditionally, it is part of

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because it was part of the

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. The Muta Bistrica ( sl, Mučka Bistrica) flows though the town, where it enters the

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River.

Name

Muta was first attested in written sources in 1255 as ''Muttenberch'' (and as ''Můtenberch'' in 1265–67, ''Moutenberch'' in 1279, ''Maeut'' in 1349, ''Mautenberch'' in 1405, and ''Mawt'' in 1459). The Slovene name is derived from the Slovene common noun ''muta'' 'toll (payment)', derived from

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''mûte'' 'toll (payment)'. It therefore refers to a place where tolls were collected.

Mass grave

Muta is the site of a

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associated with the Second World War. The Croatian Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Hrvatov) is a cluster of seven locations in the northeast part of the settlement on the bank of the

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. It contains the remains of Croatians.

Church

The

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in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Margaret ( sl, sveta Marjeta) and belongs to the

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. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1349. In the 17th century it was extended and widened. There are two other churches in Muta. The church dedicated to

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in the hamlet of Spodnja Muta in the settlement is an 11th-century Romanesque rotunda with an

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added. Fourteenth-century wall paintings survive in the church and the wooden painted ceiling is from the late 16th and early 17th century. The church on the bank of the Drava River in the south of the settlement is dedicated to

Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...

and is a late Romanesque single-nave building from the 13th century with various alterations over the centuries.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 3199

References

External links

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Muta on Geopedia
{{Authority control Populated places in the Municipality of Muta