Porezen
Porezen is located in Slovenia
Porezen
Porezen
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°11′6.23″N 13°56′34.16″E / 46.1850639°N 13.9428222°E / 46.1850639; 13.9428222
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionSlovenian Littoral
Statistical regionGorizia
MunicipalityTolmin
Area
  Total7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Elevation
870.7 m (2,856.6 ft)
Population
 (2002)
  Total8
[1]

Porezen (pronounced [ˈpoːɾɛzən]; in older sources also Porzen[2]) is a dispersed settlement on the northern slopes of a hill also named Porezen above the Bača Valley in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia.[3]

Name

Porezen was attested in historical sources as Poworsona in 1523, Possenikh in 1560, Potporsna in 1591, and Podporsnam in 1633. The name is reconstructed with the prefix pod 'below' as *Podvrěsьno, referring to a location below a peak called *Vrěsni vrh or *Vresnik—referring to the treeless peak southeast of the village now also called Porezen (elevation: 1,630 meters or 5,350 feet), which was covered in heather (Slovene: vresje).[4][5]

References

  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Spezialortsrepertorium der österreichischen Länder. Bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910, vol. 7: Österreichisch-Illyrisches Küstenland. Vienna: K. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1918. p. 27.
  3. Tolmin municipal site
  4. Torkar, Silvo (2003). "K nastanku in pomenu nekaterih zemljepisnih imen v Baški dolini" [On the Origin and Meaning of Several Toponyms in the Bača Valley]. Slavistična revija. 51 (4): 429–442. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  5. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 323.


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