Official Name: | Borje |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Sava |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Litija |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.0417°N 15.0444°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 741 |
Footnotes: | [2] |
Borje (pronounced as /sl/) is a former settlement in the Municipality of Litija in central Slovenia. It is now part of the village of Dobovica. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region.[3]
Borje stands at the top of a hill southwest of the main part of Dobovica.
The name Borje is derived from the Slovene common noun borje 'pine forest' (< bor 'pine'), referring to the local vegetation.[4]
Borje had a population of 85 living in 13 houses in 1900.[5] Dobovica was originally a hamlet of Borje, but this relationship was reversed in 1952, when Borje was made a hamlet of Dobovica, ending its existence as a separate settlement.[6]