Zakot (; ) is a former settlement in the

Municipality of Brežice The Municipality of Brežice (; ) is a municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley along the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Brežice. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria (territo ...

in eastern

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, close to the border with

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. It is now part of the town of

Brežice Brežice (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area w ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

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Geography

Zakot is a

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north of the road from Brežice to

Bizeljsko Bizeljsko (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. It lies on the right bank of the Sotla River and in terms of its territory is the largest settlement in the Municipality of Bre� ...

History

During the Second World War, the German authorities evicted the population of Zakot in the fall of 1941 to resettle

Gottschee Germans Gottscheers (, , ) are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German. Hi ...

in the village. Zakot had a population of 114 living in 19 houses in 1869, and 166 living in 24 houses in 1900. Zakot was annexed by Brežice in 1981, ending its existence as an independent settlement.

References

External links

Zakot on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brežice Former settlements in Slovenia {{Brežice-geo-stub