Murska Sobota
Murska Sobota is a town and municipality in northeastern Slovenia, located near the river Mura (hence the name) in the region of Prekmurje, being its regional capital. The municipality has 22.000 inhabitants and borders Austria and Hungary.
Name
In Slovenian, the town is known as Murska Sobota, in German as Olsnitz, and in Hungarian as Muraszombat. Murska Sobota was a district (Hungarian: járás) of Vas in the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918. It was occupied by Hungary again from 1941 to 1945.
Features
It used to be Yugoslavia's northernmost town, and throughout history it has shifted across
borders between Slovenes, Yugoslavs and Hungarians, the latter still representing a 3,000 people minority. The once significant Hungarian
Jewish community of Murska Sobota was eliminated by Nazi Germany. In 1991, during Slovenia's
Ten-Day War against the Yugoslav Federal Army, Murska Sobota
was bombed by air, with no casualties or visible damage. Today, it is a quiet town that lives around the regional authorities'
activities, light industry, commerce and spa tourism. In April 2006 the city became the see of the newly created Roman Catholic diocese of Murska Sobota, which is a
Sister cities
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