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Komen (, or ''Comeno'') is a settlement in
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. It is the seat of the
Municipality of Komen The Municipality of Komen (; ) is a municipality in the Slovene Littoral, Littoral region of Slovenia, near the Italy, Italian border. The seat of the municipality is the town of Komen. The municipality was established on 6 November 1994, when th ...
. It is located on the
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in the
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.


Name

Komen was attested in written sources in 1247 as ''Cominum'' (and as ''Cumin'' in 1255, ''de Cumino'' in 1269, and ''Comein'' in 1526). The name is probably derived from the Slavic common noun ''*komъ'' 'hill, mountain, elevation'. Derivation from the noun ''komin'' 'stove, chimney' is unlikely for accentual reasons. The Italian name, which is derived from the Slovene name, is given as ''Comen'' in older sources and ''Comeno'' in newer sources.


History

In the
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, it was first part of the Duchy of Friuli and in the 13th century it was included in the County of Gorizia. Komen was first mentioned in a document from 1247. In 1500, the whole region fell under
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dominion and it was included in the
County of Gorizia and Gradisca The Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (; ; ), historically sometimes shortened to and spelled "Goritz", was a crown land of the Habsburg dynasty within the Austrian Littoral on the Adriatic Sea, in what is now a multilingual border area of ...
until 1918. During
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, the western parts of the municipality were devastated by the
Battles of the Isonzo The Battles of the Isonzo (also known as the Isonzo Front by historians, or the Soča Front - ) were a series of twelve battles between the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I mostly on the territory of present-d ...
. After the end of the war in November 1918, the area was occupied by
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troops and annexed to
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with the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920. On February 15, 1944, the village of Komen was burned down by the
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troops as retaliation for Partisan resistance activity in the area; the surviving inhabitants were forcibly resettled to
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, from where they only returned after the end of
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. In 1947, it became part of
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and in 1991 of independent Slovenia.


Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Komen include: * Franco Giraldi, screenwriter (1931–2020) * Adela Žgur, academic (1909–1992)


References


External links

*
Komen on Geopedia
{{Authority control Populated places in the Municipality of Komen