Dornberk (; ) is a

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in western

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in the

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. It is located in the

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within the ''

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'' region of the

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. Dornberk is the centre of a local community that includes the satellite settlements of Potok pri Dornberku, Saksid, Brdo, Tabor, Draga, Zalošče, and Budihni. The entire local community has a population of around 1,800.

Name

The Slovene name of the village comes from German ''Dornberg'', meaning 'thorn hill'. This was also the official name until the end of World War I, when the village came under Italian administration. At first, the Italians used a historical version of the traditional name of the village, ''Dorimbergo'',''Dorimbergo'' in ''Udine illustrata'', part I, of Giovanni Capidogli (1665): "La Famiglia da Rabatta è di nobiltà isquisita, ed immemorabile; onde fino da Enrico Terzo Re de' Romani fu degnamente presa in sua protezione, confermandole, ... donandole libere tante, e così ampie giurisdizioni nella Toscana, che formavano un considerabile, e non picciolo Stato. Non avendo poi la fortuna con pregresso di tempo per li molti, e vari accidenti di guerra, ripigliati quei beni, che prima le aveva concesso, si ricoverò la suddetta Famiglia nella Repubblica Fiorentina, nella quale fu tenuta, e pregiata delle più nobili, conseguendo in quella tutti li principali maneggi ec. Indi per le fazioni de' Guelfi, e Ghibellini passò nel Friuli, e prese posto in Udine già Quattrocento, e più anni ed avendo più tempo quivi dimorando godendo della Signoria di tre Castella, si condusse finalmente nel Contado di Gorizza, dove poscia ottenne in Feudo il Castello di Dorimbergo con altre giurisdizioni, che oggidì parimenti si conservano nella medesima Famiglia" in
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(1742) but during the Fascist period the name was changed to ''Montespino'', which is a literal Italian translation of the German name. After World War II, the village briefly reacquired its old name, but in 1952 the name was changed again because of its German sound, and the name ''Zali Hrib'' (literally, 'bad hill') was invented. The locals rejected the new designation and demanded the old name back. The name of the settlement was changed to ''Dornberg'' in 1955, and later the final ''-g'' was replaced with a ''-k''. Nevertheless, the locals still refer to it as ''Dornberg'' rather than ''Dornberk''. This phonetic difference is not perceived in the nominative case in standard Slovene, in which the final voiced velar stop /g/ is pronounced as voiceless /k/. However, in the local Karst dialect spoken in the lower

, /g/ has developed into the

voiced glottal fricative The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant '' phonologically'', but often lacks the usual ''phonet ...

/ɦ/, and often a

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at the end of words.

Economy

The Dornberk area is known for the production of

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and fruits, especially

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es,

apricot An apricot (, ) is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ''Prunus''. Usually an apricot is from the species '' P. armeniaca'', but the fruits of the other species in ''Prunus'' sect. ''Armeniaca'' are also ...

s, and

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Church

The

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in the settlement is dedicated to the Prophet Daniel and belongs to the Diocese of Koper.Roman Catholic Diocese of Koper List of Churches May 2008

References

External links

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Dornberk on Geopedia
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica {{NovaGorica-geo-stub

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