Dolenja Brezovica (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 118.) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Brezovica The Municipality of Brezovica () is a municipality in central Slovenia, just south of its capital Ljubljana. It has approximately 9,300 inhabitants. Its administrative centre is the settlement of Brezovica pri Ljubljani. It is the central munici ...

in central

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. The municipality is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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Geography

Dolenja Brezovica is a clustered village southeast of Preserje on the west slope of Lisec Hill () at the bottom of a dry karst valley. Above the village, the valley rises steeply towards Gorenja Brezovica, and to the northwest it drops to the small Ponikve Karst Field. During heavy rains, Ponikva Creek in the karst field floods; it surfaces here after running below ground from Rakitna and then disappears into the Rupe Sinkholes at the northwest end of the karst field. Tilled fields and meadows cover the floor of the dry karst valley, and the slopes of Lisec Hill to the northeast and Štanga Hill () to the southwest are wooded. There is a low-quality hay field mowed once a year at Pungert on the lower slope of Štanga Hill.

Name

The name ''Dolenja Brezovica'' literally means 'lower Brezovica', distinguishing the village from neighboring Gorenja Brezovica (literally, 'upper Brezovica'). The names ''Brezovica'', ''Brezje'', and names like them are relatively common in Slovenia and in other Slavic countries (e.g.,

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in the

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, Brezovica in

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, etc.). The Slovene names ''Brezovica'' and ''Brezje'' are derived from the common noun ''breza'' '

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 3 ...

'. Like similar toponyms in Slovenia (e.g., '' Brezova, Brezovec, Brezovci''), it originally referred to the local vegetation.

References

External links

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Dolenja Brezovica on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Brezovica {{Brezovica-geo-stub