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Zgornja Kapla
Zgornja Kapla
	Zgornja Kapla Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 46°37′47.49″N 15°21′37.2″E / 46.6298583°N 15.360333°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Carinthia
Municipality	Podvelka
Area
• Total	13.87 km2 (5.36 sq mi)
Elevation	828.5 m (2,718.2 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	200

Zgornja Kapla (pronounced [ˈzɡoːrnja ˈkaːpla]) is a dispersed settlement in the hills north of the Drava River in the Municipality of Podvelka in Slovenia, on the border with Austria.^[2]

Name

The name Zgornja Kapla literally means 'upper Kapla', distinguishing the settlement from neighboring Spodnja Kapla (literally, 'lower Kapla'). Like other settlements named Kapla (e.g., Kapla in the Municipality of Tabor) and similar names (e.g., Kaplja vas, Kapljišče, and Železna Kapla in Austria), the name is derived from the Slovene common noun *kapla 'chapel' (< *kapela < MHG and OHG kappella < Latin cappella 'chapel'), referring to a local religious structure.^[3]

Mass graves

Zgornja Kapla is the site of three known mass graves or unmarked graves associated with the Second World War. All of the victims were murdered in May 1945 by the Jože Lacko Detachment of the Partisan forces. The Zgornji Pavlič Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Zgornji Pavlič) is located in the woods about 100 meters (330 ft) south of the Zgornji Pavlič farm (at Zgornja Kapla no. 16). It contains the remains of about 45 Hungarian civilians.^[4] The Pušnik Chapel-Shrine Grave (Grobišče pri Pušnikovi kapeli) is located about 150 meters (490 ft) northeast of the Kure farm (Zgornja Kapla no. 65). It contains the remains of a Slovene that was murdered because he had been mobilized into the German military.^[5] The Sršen 3 Grave (Grobišče Sršen 3) lies on the edge of a woods about 130 meters (430 ft) below the abandoned farm at Zgornja Kapla no. 57 and 200 meters (660 ft) east of the Stojan farm. It contains the remains of a person murdered on suspicion of being an informant.^[6]

Church

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Catherine and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It is first mentioned in written documents dating to 1389. The current building dates to after 1813, when the old church burned down.^[7]

References

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Podvelka municipal site
^ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 186.
^ Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Zgornji Pavlič". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
^ Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče pri Pušnikovi kapeli". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
^ Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Sršen 3". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage Archived July 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine reference number 3061