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Pongrac

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Country
  
Slovenia

Statistical region
  
Savinja

Area
  
14.01 km²

Population
  
798 (2002)

Traditional region
  
Styria

Elevation
  
317 m

Local time
  
Thursday 8:49 PM

Municipality
  
Municipality of Žalec

Pongrac

Weather
  
14°C, Wind SW at 11 km/h, 61% Humidity

Pongrac ([pɔŋˈɡɾaːts]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the hills south of Žalec. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

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Map of 3302 Pongrac, Slovenia

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Pongrac (literally, 'Saint Pancras') to Pongrac (literally, 'Pancras') 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.

Cultural heritage

An Early Iron Age burial ground has been identified in the northwestern part of the settlement, part of a burial ground extending to Sveti Lovrenc in the adjacent Municipality of Prebold and numbering over 180 burial mounds.

Mass graves

Pongrac is the site of two known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Britne Sele Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Britne sele), also known as the Haložan Mass Grave (Grobišče pod Haložanom), is located along a wooded slope, at several leveled areas at the edge of the woods. It is south of the house at Pongrac no. 63 and contains the remains of an unknown number of people murdered after the Second World War. The Snowdrop Valley Mass Grave (Grobišče Dolina zvončkov), also known as the Griže Mass Grave (Grobišče Griže), is located in a swampy area along Zibika Creek. It contains the remains of 80 to 100 young Home Guard soldiers transported from the Teharje camp and murdered here on or about 10 June 1945.

References

Pongrac Wikipedia