Kokra (settlement)

Kokra
Kokra Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°20′13.51″N 14°30′41.24″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Upper Carniola
Statistical region	Upper Carniola
Municipality	Preddvor
Area
• Total	52.74 km^2 (20.36 sq mi)
Elevation	898.9 m (2,949.1 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	266
[1]

Kokra (pronounced [ˈkoːkɾa]; German: Kanker^[2]) is a settlement scattered along a 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) stretch of the road from Kranj to Jezersko Peak in the Kokra Valley in the Municipality of Preddvor in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.^[3]

Church

Immaculate Conception Church

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.^[4] It was completed in 1797 and dedicated in 1802.^[5]

Other cultural heritage

There is also a monument to the local victims of the Second World War in the settlement.^[6]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 54.
3. Preddvor municipal site
4. "Kokra". Družina. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
5. Kokra at Kam.si (in Slovene)
6. "Official Journal of the Municipality of Preddvor 12(4), 19 October 2006, with list of declared cultural monuments in the municipality" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2008.

External links

• Media related to Kokra at Wikimedia Commons
• Kokra on Geopedia