Dobec () is a small

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in the hills north of

Begunje Begunje na Gorenjskem (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146.) is a village in the Municipality of Radovljica in the Upper Carniola ...

in the

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in the

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region of

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History

Dobec was first mentioned in 1262, and again in 1292, as a property belonging to the Carthusian monastery in Bistra.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 394. In June 2005, part of the settlement ceded from Dobec and merged with the settlement of Pokojišče in the

Municipality of Vrhnika The Municipality of Vrhnika (; ) is a municipality in Slovenia. The administrative seat of the municipality is the town of Vrhnika.

Mass graves

Dobec is the site of two known

mass graves A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of exec ...

associated with the Second World War. They are located northwest of the settlement in the Ravnik Valley. The Mihec Shaft Mass Grave () is also known as the Matjaž Shaft Mass Grave (). It is believed to have contained the remains of three locals that were murdered because of their opposition to the

Yugoslav Partisan The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

movement. The local villagers removed the remains before May 1991. The Vodišek Shaft Mass Grave () is deep, with its entrance at the bottom of a sinkhole. Human remains are located on two shelves in the shaft and the floor of the shaft. The victims were people from nearby villages that were ambushed and murdered.

Church

The local church, built outside the settlement to the north, is dedicated to

Saint Leonard Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Lenart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559) is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, ...

and belongs to the

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of Begunje pri Cerknici.Družina RC Church in Slovenia Journal website
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References

External links

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Dobec on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Cerknica {{Cerknica-geo-stub