Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Maribor (UK: / ˈ m ær ɪ b ɔːr / MARR-ib-or, US: / ˈ m ɑːr-/ MAR-, Slovene: [ˈmáːɾibɔɾ] ⓘ; also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria.
Original file (3,778 × 2,834 pixels, file size: 2.29 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. ... Maribor, Slovenia: Author: Sharon Hahn ...
The Urban Municipality of Maribor (pronounced [ˈmaːɾibɔɾ]), also the City of Maribor (Slovene: Mestna občina Maribor, acronym MOM), is one of twelve urban municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The population of the municipality was 113,747 in January 2024. [2]
Online map services of Slovenia are based on data provided by the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, [1] such as orthophoto covering entire territory of Slovenia with detailed imagery taken from a plane rather than satellite, and combine them with additional contents that are of interest to tourists and residents of Slovenia.
The Main Square of Maribor, also known as Glavni trg, is a square in Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia, situated in the northeast of the country. On 17 November 1929 the aircraft: Raab-Katzenstein KL.1 Schwalbe with registration: D-974 crashed on Main Square of Maribor, with the death of Letalski center Maribor secretary: Ivo Šestan ...
Until 1784, the hill was the site of Upper Maribor Castle (Slovene: Mariborski grad, German: Schloss Obermarburg) The castle was demolished around 1790; in the following decade its debris was used to construct a stone pyramid-like obelisk, which gave the hill its current name.
Maribor Pohorje Ski Resort (Slovene: Smučišče Mariborsko Pohorje) is the largest ski resort in Slovenia, located just south of Maribor, at the mountain range of Pohorje in Lower Styria. The resort consists of three sections: lower section " Snow Stadium, " middle section " Bolfenk " and an upper section called " Areh ".
The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Križ (literally, 'Holy Cross') to Gaj nad Mariborom (literally, 'grove above Maribor') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.