Novo mesto in Slovenia

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Novo Mesto is the city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered the economic and cultural centre of the historic Lower Carniola region with 23,000 inhabitants. Novo Mesto (literally “New Town”) has been settled since pre-history. Graben Castle down the Krka River, ancestral seat of the noble House of Graben von SteinHabsburg archduke Rudolf IV of Austria on 7 April 1365 as Rudolfswerth. The Austrian Habsburgs received the Carniolan March from the hands of Emperor Louis IV in 1335 and in 1364 Rudolf “the Founder” proclaimed himself a Duke of Carniola. The name Neustadt was given in the early 15th century.   read more…

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