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Trnje, Škofja Loka

place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ4779402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trnje (pronounced [ˈtəɾnjɛ]; German: Terne) is a settlement in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Mass grave

Trnje is the site of a mass grave associated with World War II. The Podtrn Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Podtrn) is located on a path about 300 meters (980 ft) north of the settlement. It contains the remains of seven victims believed to be Home Guard prisoners of war from nearby villages that were imprisoned at Loka Castle.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Trnje, Škofja Loka” as place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Trnje, Škofja and Loka can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4779402. Authority coordinates are 46.178, 14.294. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trnje, Škofja Loka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.