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Municipality o Krško

Občina Krško
Location o the Municipality o Krško in Slovenie
Location o the Municipality o Krško in Slovenie
Coordinates: 45°57′N 15°29′E / 45.950°N 15.483°E / 45.950; 15.483Coordinates: 45°57′N 15°29′E / 45.950°N 15.483°E / 45.950; 15.483
Kintra Slovenie
Govrenment
 • MayorMiran Stanko
Area
 • Total286.5 km2 (110.6 sq mi)
Elevation
163 m (535 ft)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total25,833
 • Density90/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02 (CEST)
Postal code
8270
Area code(s)(+386) 07
Vehicle registrationKK
Websitewww.krsko.si

The Municipality o Krško is a municipality in eastren Slovenie. Its seat is the toun o Krško. The aurie is tradeetionally dividit atween Lawer Styrie (territory on the left bank o the Sava) an Lawer Carniola (territory on the richt bank o the Sava). The entire municipality is nou includit in the Lawer Sava Statistical Region.[1]

History

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Airchaeological evidence shows that the aurie wis settled in prehistoric times. Alang the Sava River, a feck o Bronze an Airn Age steids as weel as Roman fynds shaw conteenous thrift. Efter the Medieval period the aurie wis a Habsburg possession. It wis affectit bi Ottoman raids frae the 15t tae the 17t centuries.

Main sichts

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Sichts in the municipality include the Krško pairish kirk,[2] the Videm-Krško parish kirk,[3] a kirk on the richt bank o the Sava,[4] a Capuchin monastery,[5] an Krško Castle. Faur tae the sooth is Šrajbarski Turn Castle, biggit in the 16t hunderyear. Natural sichts in the municipality include Kostanjevica Cave at the fuit o the Gorjanci Hills an the Krakovo Forest, the anerly virgin wid in Slovenie whaur pedunculate aik (Quercus robur) grows an provides a habitat for several rare an endangered ainimal species.

Economy

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Industries o the Municipality o Krško include construction, metalworking, paper, textiles, firth processin, agricultur, trade, an transportation, while tourism continues tae develop. The growthie flatland sootheast o the toun o Krško alang the banks o the Sava, kent as the Krško-Brežice Plain (Krško - brežiško polje), is uised for vineyards as weel as aipple, peir, peach, apricot, an ploum orcharts. Local vineyards produce wines lik Cviček, Laški Rizling, an Modra Frankinja, as weel as less weel-kent local wines lik white an reid Sremičan an ithers matured in local wine cellars.

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