Cerknica ( pronounced [ˈtseːɾknitsa] ; Italian : Circonio , German : Zirknitz ) is a town in the Karst region of southwestern Slovenia , with a population of 4,018 (2016 census). It is the seat of the Municipality of Cerknica . It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola .
6-504: Cerknica was first attested in written sources as Circhinitz in 1040 (and as Czirknicz in 1145, Cyrknitz in 1261, and Cirnizza in 1581). The name is derived from *Cerkvnica , a univerbation of *Cerkvna (vas) 'church village'. A church was established very early in Cerknica, probably already in the 9th century. The original structure was burned down in an Ottoman attack in 1472. There are three churches in Cerknica. The parish church
12-505: A bell tower. The interior combines groin vaulting and barrel vaulting with spandrels. Saint Roch's Church stands in the northern part of Cerknica. It was built between 1630 and 1644 at the site of a plague chapel dating to 1578. It has a rectangular nave, a polygonal chancel walled on three sides, and a bell tower. The altar painting of Saint Roch is a 1763 work by Anton Cebej . Notable people that were born or lived in Cerknica include: Univerbation In linguistics , univerbation
18-515: A univerbated product is normally written as a single word, occasionally it remains orthographically disconnected. For example, bon marché (French, lit. ' good deal ' ) acts like a single adjectival word that means 'cheap', the opposite of which is cher ('costly') as opposed to [un] mauvais marché ('a bad deal'). It may be contrasted with compounding (composition). Because compound words do not always originate from fixed phrases that already exist, compounding may be termed
24-468: Is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary . It stands at the top of a hill in the center of Cerknica at the site of a former fortification against Ottoman raids . It is a late Gothic hall church , a triple-naved structure with lierne vaulting built between 1480 and 1520 at the site of an earlier church that was burned during an Ottoman attack in 1472. A Baroque chapel was added to the church in the 18th century and
30-509: Is the diachronic process of combining a fixed expression of several words into a new single word. The univerbating process is epitomized in Talmy Givón 's aphorism that "today's morphology is yesterday's syntax ". Some univerbated examples are always (from all [the] way ; the s was added later), onto (from on to ), albeit (from all be it ), and colloquial gonna (from going to ) and finna (from fixin' to ). Although
36-518: The church's furnishings date from the 19th century. The other two churches are chapels of ease dedicated to John the Baptist and Saint Roch . Saint John the Baptist Church is a cemetery church south of the main settlement. A chapel was mentioned at the site in a visitation report of 1581; the church itself was built in 1642. It has a rectangular nave, a polygonal chancel walled on three sides, and
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