Nova Sušica (, ) 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 ...

southwest of

Pivka Pivka (, , ) is a small town in Slovenia in the Pivka Basin in the Karst region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Pivka. It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola. Name Pivka was first mentioned in 1300 as ''villa Sancti Petri ...

in the

Inner Carniola Inner Carniola ( ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica (plateau), Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the Goriška, Gor ...

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 ...

Name

Locally, the name ''Nova Sušica'' has been reduced via syncope to ''Novašica''.

History

In 1994, territory from

Nadanje Selo Nadanje Selo () is a settlement south of Šmihel in the Municipality of Pivka in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. History In 1994, territory from Nadanje Selo, Mala Pristava, Nova Sušica Nova Sušica (, ) is a village southwest of Pivka ...

, Mala Pristava, Nova Sušica, and Stara Sušica was combined to create Ribnica as a separate settlement.

Church

The local church 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 ...

and belongs to the

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Košana.

Cultural heritage

The Ambrožič Mill () in Nova Sušica has been registered as technical cultural heritage. It consists of a sawmill, grain mill, and house dating from the 19th century. It is located at Nova Sušica 37 and 37a along the main road from Ribnica to Divača on the right bank of the

Reka River The Reka (literally, 'river' in Slovene), also the Inner Carniola Reka (), is a river that starts as Big Creek () in Croatia, on the southern side of Mount Snežnik, and flows through western Slovenia, where it is also initially known as Big Cre ...

References

External links

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Nova Sušica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Pivka {{Pivka-geo-stub