Gozd (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 24–25.) is a small village in the

Municipality of Kamnik The Municipality of Kamnik (; ) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kamnik. Today it is part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. It is the 15th-largest municipality by area in Slovenia. Sett ...

in the

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region of

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. It includes the hamlets of Brška Vas (), Gornja Vas (), and Laze (), as well as several isolated farms: Zabrezje or Brezovje, Brezovnik, Repovničar, Kajžar, Strahon, Hrastnik, Breg, and Zabrinje.

Name

The settlement was historically attested under a variety of names: first as German ''Spizholz'' in 1257, and then as Latin ''in Silua'' (1313) and German ''auf dem Walde'' (1318). The Slovene name ''Gozd'' is semantically identical to the German and Latin names (meaning 'forest') and is derived from the common noun ''gozd'' 'forest'. Locally, the settlement is known as ''Gojzd'' (adjective form ''gojški''), and the Gozd Pasture () on the

Big Pasture Plateau The Big Pasture Plateau ( ) is a karstified mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps northeast of Kamnik, Slovenia. It measures and has an average elevation of above sea level. Its highest point is Mount Gradišče, at . There are numerou ...

() is named after the village. In the past the German name was ''Goisd''.

Church

The

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in com ...

in the settlement is dedicated to

Saint Anne According to apocrypha, as well as Christianity, Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's Gosp ...

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References

External links

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Gozd on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kamnik {{Kamnik-geo-stub