Medvedjek is a settlement to the east of Veliki Gaber

Veliki Gaber

Veliki Gaber is a village in the Trebnje municipality in eastern Slovenia. It lies just north of the Slovenian A2 motorway to the east of Ivančna Gorica. The area is part of the historical Lower Carniola region...

 in the Trebnje

Trebnje

Trebnje is a city in Slovenia. The city lies on the Temenica River in the traditional region of Lower Carniola. The settlement developed on the main regional road and railway line from Ljubljana to Novo Mesto. The settlement had a population of about 3,520 in 2010...

 municipality

Municipality

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 in eastern Slovenia

Slovenia

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. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola was a kreis of the historical Habsburg crown land of Carniola from 1849 till 1919 and is nowadays a traditional region of Slovenia. Its center is Novo Mesto, while other urban centers include Kočevje, Grosuplje, Krško, Trebnje, Mirna, Črnomelj, Semič, and Metlika.-See also:* Upper...

. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia statistical region

Jugovzhodna Slovenija statistical region

The Southeast Slovenia statistical region is a statistical region in the south-east of Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Novo Mesto. It is the largest region in Slovenia. It has the highest share of young people with 15.8%...

.

The A2 motorway

A2 motorway (Slovenia)

The A2 motorway is a motorway in Slovenia, around 175 km long, connecting Karavanke Tunnel via the capital city Ljubljana to Obrežje . It connects several larger Slovenian cities, including Kranj, Ljubljana and Novo Mesto, and is part of the Pan-European corridor X.The motorway was completed...

 crosses the settlement territory. When it was being built in the early 1980s an Iron Age and Roman period

Ancient Rome

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 burial ground

Cemetery

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 was uncovered and partially excavated.

On 28 June 1991 during the Slovenian Independence War

Ten-Day War

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 a Yugoslav People's Army

Yugoslav People's Army

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 tank column came under attack at a truck barricade at Medvedjek. Six truck drivers were killed in an air raid

Air raid

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that followed. In 1993 a monument to commemorate the events was unveiled on the site.

External links

• Medvedjek at Geopedia