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Kronika: časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino


This work by Blaž Podpečan is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

The author presents the settlement situation of the Braslovče parish in the past on the basis of archaeological finds. The Braslovče region is situated in the north-east of the Lower river Savinja valley. Archaeological researches were never carried out in that region; it was thus considered not interesting from the archaeological viewpoint. Numerous short notices on finds, folk tradition and not yet researched sites are exhibiting the very opposite. With material sources proved settlement lasted from atleast late prehistory and was particularly intensive in Roman period. The suitableness of the territory was later proven by building of a church in at least at the beginning of the 11th century and by founding the parish of Braslovče, which was first mentioned in the year 1140. At the beginning the lords of Žovnek had patronage over the church and later the counts (princes) of Celje who very soon became owners of free property. Thus with the researches done, nine new sites join the previously known ten of which the most noticeable is the recent discovery of an entirely preserved depot of medieval silver coins from the 15h century.