Murska Sobota

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Murska Sobota
Town of Murska Sobota
Coat of arms
Location of the Municipality of Murska Sobota in Slovenia
Murska Sobota Location of the city of Murska Sobota in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°40′N 16°10′E / 46.667, 16.167
Country	Slovenia
Region	Prekmurje
Municipality	Murska Sobota
Government
- Mayor	Anton Štihec
Area
- Total	24.9 sq mi (64.4 km²)
Population (2002)
- Total	20,080
- males	9,556
- female	10,524
Average age	39.93 years
Residential areas	30.73 m² (330.8 sq ft)/person
Households	6,974
Families	5,940
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, census of 2002.
Website: Official site

Murska Sobota is a town and municipality in northeastern Slovenia, located near the river Mura (hence the name) in the region of Prekmurje, being its regional capital. The municipality has 22.000 inhabitants and borders Austria and Hungary.

Contents 1 Name 2 Features 3 Towns and villages 4 Sister cities 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Name

In Slovenian, the town is known as Murska Sobota, in German as Olsnitz, and in Hungarian as Muraszombat. Murska Sobota was a district (Hungarian: járás) town of Vas in the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918. It was occupied by Hungary again from 1941 to 1945. It was also part of Balatin sanjak which belonged at first Budin Eyalet, later Kanije Eyaleti before Treaty of Carlowitz.

[edit] Features

It used to be Yugoslavia's northernmost town, and throughout history it has shifted across borders between Slovenia, Yugoslavia and Hungary. Hungarians still represent a 3,000 people minority. In 1919 here was declared the Republic of Prekmurje and the town was capital the of the new state. The once significant Hungarian Jewish community of Murska Sobota was eliminated by Nazi Germany. In 1991, during Slovenia's Ten-Day War against the Yugoslav Federal Army, Murska Sobota was bombed by air, with no casualties or visible damage. Today, it is a quiet town that lives around the regional authorities' activities, light industry, commerce and spa tourism. In April 2006 the city became the see of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota, which is a suffragan to the archdiocese of Maribor.

[edit] Towns and villages

Bakovci, Černelavci, Krog, Kupšinci, Markišavci, Murska Sobota, Nemčavci, Polana, Rakičan, Satahovci, Veščica

[edit] Sister cities

• Ingolstadt, Bavaria
• Bethlehem (PA), Pennsylvania

[edit] See also

• List of cities in Slovenia

[edit] External links

• Municipality of Murska Sobota
• Google map
• Aeroklub Murska Sobota

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Coordinates: 46°40′N, 16°10′E