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Saint Gera (Croatian: "Sveta Gera") or Trdina Peak (Slovene: Trdinov vrh) is the highest peak of the Žumberak Mountains, at a height of 1,178 metres (3,865 ft).[1] It is located along the border between southeastern Slovenia and Croatia, and the summit is subject to a border dispute between the two nations.

Name

The peak was originally called Sveta Gera in Croatian and Sveta Jera in Slovene (Mount St. Gertrude) after the 15th-century church of Saint Gertrude some hundred meters from the highest point of the peak. In June 1921, however, the president of the Novo Mesto Mountaineering Club Ferdinand Seidl proposed to rename it after Janez Trdina, an ardent describer of the region. The proposal was submitted to the central Yugoslav government, which published a decree on the new name on 1 July 1922.[2] On 15 August 1923, the peak was ceremonially renamed by a Slovene girl, while the accompanying ecclesiastic rituals were performed by a Croatian priest.[3]

Border dispute

At the top of Sveta Gera, at an altitude of 1178 meters, there are a telecommunication tower and a military barracks whose location is strategically important to Croatia. Barracks was used by the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA) until early 1991 when its soldiers withdrew from the site following breakup of Yugoslavia. In June of the same year, Slovenian soldiers entered barracks on the basis of an oral agreement between Presidents of Slovenia and Croatia, Milan Kučan and Franjo Tuđman. Croatian President Tuđman considered that it would be better for Croatia to avoid conflicts with a friendly Slovenian army in the west since the country was threatened by hostile YPA from the east. Although Slovenian army announced many times that its soldiers would leave the barracks, particularly in 1998 and 2000, it didn't happen.[4] In 2004, President Kučan stated in an interview for Večernji list that it was time for the Slovenian soldiers to leave the barracks, adding that there wasn't a sufficient will of the Slovenian governing officials to do so.[5] On 29 June 2017, the Arbitration Tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration that was deciding on another border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, mentioned in its verdict that Sveta Gera indeed belonged to Croatia but that it neither had jurisdiction to decide on the matter nor it could order Slovenian soldiers to withdraw.[6]

References

External links

• Media related to Trdina Peak at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Sveta Gera

Sveta Gera ist der kroatische Name des höchsten Berges des Žumberak-Gebirges (slow. Gorjanci) und ist Teil der kroatisch-slowenischen Grenze. Das teilweise nicht baumbestandene Gipfelplateau hat etwa 300 Meter Ausdehnung und erreicht mit 1178 Meter seine maximale Höhe[1] (nach offiziellen Quellen 1181 m)[2].

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- [en] Sveta Gera

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[es] Trdinov vrh

Es el pico más alto de las montañas Žumberak/Gorjanci que se necuentran a lo largo de la frontera entre Eslovenia y Croacia. Este pico tiene una altura de 1181 metros. Los croatas lo denominan "Sveta Gera".

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[fr] Sveta Gera

La Sveta Gera (slovène : Trdinov vrh, allemand : St. Geraberg, Gorianc, Sichelberg[2]) est le point culminant du massif montagneux du Žumberak. Son sommet est situé en Croatie à proximité de la frontière avec la Slovénie[3] et il culmine à 1 193 mètres[4]. En Slovénie, la montagne était également nommée Sveta Jera mais la montagne fut rebaptisée en 1923 d'après l'écrivain slovène Janez Trdina.

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[it] Sveta Gera

Sveta Gera (in croato) o Trdinov vrh (in sloveno) è la vetta più alta dei Monti Žumberak, con un'altezza di 1178 m.[1] Si trova lungo il confine tra la Slovenia sud-orientale e la Croazia; la vetta è soggetta a una disputa di confine tra le due nazioni.

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