Filovci (; ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

southeast of

Bogojina Bogojina (; sometimes ''Zalabagonya'') is a village east of Murska Sobota in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. It lies in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice. Name Bogojina was attested in written records in 1208 as ''Bogma'' (probably an abbrev ...

in the

Municipality of Moravske Toplice The Municipality of Moravske Toplice (; ) is a municipality in Slovenia, part of the Prekmurje region. Its seat is the spa settlement of Moravske Toplice. The municipality is an important center of Lutheranism Lutheranism is a major bran ...

in the

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying betwee ...

region of

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

. A number of traditional houses in the village have been declared cultural monuments, as well preserved typical examples of local

thatched Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge ('' Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...

architecture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference numbers 22258, 22257, 6841, 6843, 6842, 6838, 6839, 9720

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Filovci include: * Ferenc Oslay (1883–1932), historian and writer

References

External links

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Filovci on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice {{MoravskeToplice-geo-stub