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Črešnjice pri Cerkljah
Črešnjice pri Cerkljah
	Črešnjice pri Cerkljah Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 45°53′31.67″N 15°30′41.13″E / 45.8921306°N 15.5114250°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Lower Carniola
Statistical region	Lower Sava
Municipality	Brežice
Area
• Total	1.16 km2 (0.45 sq mi)
Elevation	154.1 m (505.6 ft)
Population (2020)
• Total	219
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)

Črešnjice pri Cerkljah (pronounced [ˈtʃɾeːʃnjitsɛ pɾi ˈtseːɾkljax]; in older sources also Češnjice,^[2] German: Kerschdorf^[2]) is a settlement north of Cerklje ob Krki in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.^[3]

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Črešnjice to Črešnjice pri Cerkljah in 1953.^[4] In the past the German name was Kerschdorf.^[2]

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ ^a ^b ^c Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 74.
^ Brežice municipal site
^ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.

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