Mokronog (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 82–83.) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno The Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno (; ) is a municipality in Slovenia. The municipality was created in 2006, when it seceded from the Municipality of Trebnje. It is part of the traditional province of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now inc ...

in southeastern

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. It is also the administrative centre of the municipality. The area is part of the historical region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

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Name

Mokronog was first attested in written sources in 1137 under the German name ''Nazuŏz'' (and as ''Nazzenfuz'' in 1143 and ''Nazzenvozzen'' in 1158). The Slovene name ''Mokronag'' was not attested until 1689.Torkar, Silvo. 2008. "Flektivna derivacija v slovenskih krajevnih imenih (jezikonozgodovinski vidik)". ''Slavistična revija'' 56(4): 411–419.
Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 268. The name was originally a genitive plural (nominative ''*Mokronozi'', accusative ''*Mokronoge''; cf. the related place names Mokronoge and Mokronoge, both in

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) that was reinterpreted as a singular. It is believed to be a compound of the adjective ''moker'' 'wet' + the noun ''noga'' 'foot of a hill/mountain', thus originally meaning 'wet area at the foot of a mountain'. The hypothesis that the name means 'wet foot' as a humorous reference to people living in a wet place is less likely. Also less likely is the hypothesis that it is derived from ''*Makromьnovo'' (< ''*ma-'' 'somehow' + ''*kromьnъ'' 'hidden'). In the past the German name was ''Nassenfuß''.

Churches

The

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in the settlement is dedicated to

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() and belongs to the

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. It was built in the style of the late-

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from 1822 to 1824 on the site of an older church that collapsed. The church tower was redesigned in 1940 based on plans by the architect Janez Valentinčič, a student of

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. A second church in the northern part of the settlement (Šeginke) is dedicated to

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. It dates to the mid-17th century. A third church stands to the west on Mount Sorrow (, , 366 m). It is dedicated to

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and dates from 1697, with 18th- and 19th-century painting.

History

Mokronog was first mentioned in 1137, and acquired

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in 1279. Around 1340, a wall was built around the town, of which only a tower now remains. The town suffered severely from Ottoman raids in the 16th and 17th century and it lost most of its population. It regained some of its former importance only in early 19th century, when it became a center of the leather industry. The leather factory was completely destroyed in 1943 by a Nazi air strike. A 13th-century castle with 15th-, 17th-, and 18th-century additions, built on a hill south of the parish church, was burned down by the

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after the capitulation of Italy in 1943 and further demolished after the

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References

External links

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Mokronog on Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mokronog Populated places in the Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno