Petanjci

Petanjci

Petajnci
Petanjci Petajnci
	Petanjci Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 46°39′2.23″N 16°4′40.3″E / 46.6506194°N 16.077861°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Prekmurje
Statistical region	Mura
Municipality	Tišina
Area
• Total	7.64 km2 (2.95 sq mi)
Elevation	196 m (643 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	676

Petanjci (pronounced [pɛˈtaːntsi]; Hungarian: Szécsénykút,^[2] Prekmurje Slovene: Petajnci^[3]) is a village on the left bank of the Mura River in the Municipality of Tišina in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia.^[4]

There is a small chapel in the village. It is dedicated to Saint Florian and was built in the early 20th century in the Neo-Gothic style.^[5]

Notable residents

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. In 1598, he spent a month at former Kastelišče Castle (Nádasdy Mansion), where as a Protestant he found refuge from Catholic persecution.^[6]
Nika Zorjan (born 1992), singer and songwriter

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ Radkersburg und Luttenberg (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut.
^ Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru & Zgodovinsko društvo Maribor. 2001. p. 234. Petajnci
^ Tišina municipal site
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 3449
^ "Grad (Kastelišče) Petanjci". Kamra. Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

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