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Žumberak Mountains

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The Žumberak Mountains (Žumberačka Gora, Žumberška gora, historic German name: Uskokengebirge) is a range of hills and mountains in northwestern Croatia and southeastern Slovenia, extending from the southwest to the northeast between the Krka and the Kupa. [1]

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Aesculapian snake

The Aesculapian snake (now Zamenis longissimus, previously Elaphe longissima), is a species of nonvenomous snake native to Europe, a member of the Colubrinae subfamily of the family Colubridae.

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Alpine salamander

The alpine salamander (Salamandra atra) is a shiny black salamander found in the central, eastern and Dinaric Alps, at altitudes above.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Austropotamobius torrentium

Austropotamobius torrentium, also called the stone crayfish, is a European species of freshwater crayfish in the family Astacidae.

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Šentjernej

Šentjernej (or; in older sources also Šent Jernej,Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 72. Sankt Bartlmä) is a small town and a municipality in southeastern Slovenia.

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Baden culture

The Baden culture, 3600–2800 BC, is a Chalcolithic culture found in Central and Southeast Europe.

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Banovina (region)

Banovina, formerly known as Banska krajina or Banija,Dalibor Brozović, Hrvatska enciklopedija (LZMK), 1.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor (born 2 November 1963) is a Slovenian politician serving as President of Slovenia since December 2012.

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Brežice

Brežice (RannLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 6.) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border.

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Brown bear

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a bear that is found across much of northern Eurasia and North America.

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Cave

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.

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Cobitis elongata

Cobitis elongata (Balkan loach) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Croatia proper

Croatia proper (Hrvatska) is one of the four historical regions of the Republic of Croatia, together with Dalmatia, Slavonia, and Istria.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Dice snake

The dice snake (Natrix tessellata) is a European nonvenomous snake belonging to the family Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.

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Dinaric Alps

The Dinaric Alps, also commonly Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southeastern Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea.

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Dolomite

Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite.

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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, and in some historical cases Uniate Churches, are twenty-three Eastern Christian particular churches sui iuris in full communion with the Pope in Rome, as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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European green lizard

The European green lizard (Lacerta viridis) is a large lizard distributed across European midlatitudes from Slovenia and eastern Austria to as far east as the Black Sea coasts of Ukraine and Turkey.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fire salamander

The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is possibly the best-known salamander species in Europe.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Goshawk

Goshawk may refer to several species of birds of prey, mainly in the genus Accipiter.

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Grass snake

The grass snake (Natrix natrix), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian non-venomous snake.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Grey heron

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa.

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Independent State of Croatia

The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; Stato Indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II fascist puppet state of Germany and Italy.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Jadranka Kosor

Jadranka Kosor (born 1 July 1953) is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as the Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader.

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Jastrebarsko

Jastrebarsko (Jaska), colloquially known as Jaska, is a town in Zagreb County, Croatia.

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Jazovka

Jazovka is a pit in the Žumberak area of Croatia where the bodies of hundreds of Croatian soldiers and civilians were dumped during and after World War II.

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Karlovac County

Karlovac County (Karlovačka županija) is a county in central Croatia, with the administrative center in Karlovac.

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Klinča Sela

Klinča Sela is a municipality in Zagreb County, Croatia.

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Kostanjevica na Krki

Kostanjevica na Krki (also Kostanjevica ob Krki, LandstraßLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 68.), is a small town in the historic Lower Carniola region of southern Slovenia.

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Krašić

Krašić is a village and municipality in central Croatia, located near Jastrebarsko and Ozalj, south of Žumberak and north of Kupa, about 50 km southwest of Zagreb.

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Krško

Krško is a town in eastern Slovenia.

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Krka (Sava)

The Krka (Gurk, Corcoras) is a river in southeastern Slovenia (the traditional region of Lower Carniola), a right tributary of the Sava.

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Kupa

The Kupa (Croatian and Serbian pronunciation) or Kolpa (or; from Colapis in Roman times) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia.

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Kupčina

Kupčina is a river in central Croatia, a left tributary of Kupa.

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Land registration

Land registration generally describes systems by which matters concerning ownership, possession or other rights in land can be recorded (usually with a government agency or department) to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and to prevent unlawful disposal.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church, sometimes called the Western Church, is the largest particular church sui iuris in full communion with the Pope and the rest of the Catholic Church, tracing its history to the earliest days of Christianity.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola (Dolenjska; Unterkrain) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Military Frontier

The Military Frontier was a province straddling the southern borderland of the Habsburg Monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Natura 2000

Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union.

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Nature park

A Nature Park or Natural Park is a designation for a protected landscape by means of long-term planning, sustainable use and agriculture.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Newt

A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae, also called eft during its terrestrial juvenile phase.

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Novo Mesto

Novo Mesto (Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) 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.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Ozalj

Ozalj (Ozaly, Wosail or Woseil) is a town in central Croatia, located north of Karlovac and southwest of Jastrebarsko, on the Kupa River.

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Pangrč Grm

Pangrč Grm is a settlement in the foothills of the Gorjanci range in the Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia.

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Phengaris rebeli

Phengaris rebeli (formerly Maculinea rebeli), common name mountain Alcon blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

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Podarcis muralis

Podarcis muralis (common wall lizard) is a species of lizard with a large distribution in Europe and well-established introduced populations in North America, where it is also called the European wall lizard.

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Pond

A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Samobor

Samobor is a city in Zagreb County, Croatia.

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Schengen Area

The Schengen Area is an area comprising 26 European states that have officially abolished passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders.

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Serbian Patriarchate of Peć

The Serbian Patriarchate of Peć (Српска патријаршија у Пећи, Srpska patrijaršija u Peći) or just Patriarchate of Peć (Пећка патријаршија, Pećka patrijaršija), was an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate that existed from 1346 to 1766 with seat in Patriarchal Monastery of Peć.

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Shtokavian

Shtokavian or Štokavian (štokavski / штокавски) is the prestige dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language, and the basis of its Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin standards.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene:, abbr.: RS), is a country in southern Central Europe, located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.

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Slovenian Ground Force

The Slovenian Ground Force is the primary component of Slovenian Armed Forces.

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Smooth snake

Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)Street D. 1979.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Squalius cephalus

Squalius cephalus is a European species of freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae.

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Sveta Gera

Saint Gera (Croatian: "Sveta Gera") or Trdina Peak (Trdinov vrh) is the highest peak of the Žumberak Mountains, at a height of.

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Toad

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Uskoks

The Uskoks (Uskoci,; singular: Uskok; names in other languages) were irregular soldiers in Habsburg Croatia that inhabited areas on the eastern Adriatic coast and surrounding territories during the Ottoman wars in Europe.

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Ustashe

The Ustasha – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret), commonly known as Ustashe (Ustaše), was a Croatian fascist, racist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization, active, in its original form, between 1929 and 1945.

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Vipera ammodytes

Vipera ammodytes (other common names include horned viper, long-nosed viper, nose-horned viper, sand viper)Street, D. 1979.

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Viviparous lizard

The viviparous lizard or common lizard, Zootoca vivipara (formerly Lacerta vivipara), is a Eurasian lizard.

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Vladykov's lamprey

Vladykov's lamprey (Eudontomyzon vladykovi) is a species of lamprey in the Petromyzontidae family.

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White stork

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

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World War II in Yugoslavia

Military operations in World War II in Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and client regimes.

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Yugoslav People's Army

The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska narodna armija / Југословенска народна армија / Jugoslavenska narodna armija; also Yugoslav National Army), often referred-to simply by the initialism JNA, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Zagreb County

Zagreb County (Zagrebačka županija) is a county in central Croatia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Žumberak_Mountains

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