Seča

Seča Sezza, Sveti Jernej (until 1958)
Seča Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°29′53.12″N 13°36′31.83″E / 45.4980889°N 13.6088417°ECoordinates: 45°29′53.12″N 13°36′31.83″E / 45.4980889°N 13.6088417°E
Country	Slovenia
Region	Slovenian Littoral
Municipality	Piran
Area
• Total	3.08 km^2 (1.19 sq mi)
Elevation	64.2 m (210.6 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	942
[1]

Seča (pronounced [ˈseːtʃa]; Italian: Sezza^[2]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Piran in the Littoral region of Slovenia.^[3]

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Jernej (literally, 'Saint Bartholomew') to Seča in 1958. 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.^[4][5][6]

Church

The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew (Slovene: sveti Jernej).

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Spezialortsrepertorium der österreichischen Länder. Bearbeiten auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910, vol. 7: Österreichisch-Illyrisches Küstenland. 1918. Vienna: K. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, p. 39.
3. Piran municipal site
4. Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
5. Premk, F. 2004. Slovenska versko-krščanska terminologija v zemljepisnih imenih in spremembe za čas 1921–1967/68. Besedoslovne lastnosti slovenskega jezika: slovenska zemljepisna imena. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, pp. 113–132.
6. Urbanc, Mimi, & Matej Gabrovec. 2005. Krajevna imena: poligon za dokazovanje moči in odraz lokalne identitete. Geografski vestnik 77(2): 25–43.

External links

• Seča on Geopedia (map, aerial photograph)
• Seča on Google Maps (map, photographs, street view)