Lož (, , ) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Loška Dolina The Municipality of Loška Dolina (; ) is a municipality in Slovenia. It is part of the Inner Carniola traditional region. Snežnik Castle and Cross Cave are located in the municipality. Its municipal seat is the town of Stari Trg pri Ložu. It b ...

in the

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region of

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Name

Originally the settlement that is now

Stari Trg pri Ložu Stari Trg pri Ložu (; , , ) is a settlement and the administrative seat of the Municipality of Loška Dolina in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Geography The territory of Stari Trg pri Ložu includes the former hamlet of Breg () on the rig ...

was called ''Lož'', but in 1341 a new settlement was begun around Lož Castle and the name of the older settlement as well as its

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were adopted by the new settlement. The older settlement began to be referred to as ''Stari trg'' (literally, 'old market town' in Slovene; ). Lož was attested in historical sources as ''Los'' in 1220, ''Lossi'' between 1221 and 1251, ''Loc'' in 1260, ''Loͤs'' in 1341, and ''Las'' in 1440, among other spellings. The Italian name ''Olisa'' dates back at least to the 1880s.

History

The new settlement of Lož around Lož Castle was granted

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

in 1477.

Churches

There are two churches in the settlement. The church in the centre of the town is dedicated to

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. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1428. During Ottoman raids in the late 15th century the church was fortified and a wall was built around the town. The second church is outside the town at the

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and is dedicated to

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. It was built in 1635 after an

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by locals in a 1631 outbreak of

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.Local cultural heritage on the Loška Dolina municipal site
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References

External links

Lož on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Loška Dolina {{LoškaDolina-geo-stub