Runtole () is a settlement in the
City Municipality of Celje
The City Municipality of Celje (; sl, Mestna občina Celje) is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is the city of Celje, a regional center of Styria.
Settlements
In addition to the municipal seat of Celje, the municipalit ...
in eastern
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...
. It lies in the hills north of
Celje
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, next to Lake Šmartno. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Savinja Statistical Region
The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly c ...
.
Name
Runtole was attested in historical sources as ''Landoll'' in 1458 (and as ''Londol'' in 1464); compare ''
Landol''. The Slovene name is an archaic
locative
In grammar, the locative case (abbreviated ) is a grammatical case which indicates a location. It corresponds vaguely to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". The locative case belongs to the general local cases, together with the ...
form of the German compound ''Rundtal'' 'rounded valley', referring to the local geography.
References
External links
Runtole on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Celje
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