
Kraj: Celje, država: Slovenia |
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Opis mesta: Presenting Celje Hotel Review Travel Guide Video. <br><br> Celje, Slovenia's third largest city and located at Savinja river at 241 meters above sea level. The city is located at the junction between Ljubljana (west), Maribor (north), Zidani Most (south), Velenje and Slovenj Gradec (northwest) and Rogaška Slatina (east). Slavinja river passes the old town on its way to the river Sava.<br><br>Celje was inhabited in the Neolithic period (neo litikum: from Greek = Neolithic) and later became the second most important commercial and administrative center in Noricum Kingdom. (Noricum was the ancient Roman province in present Austria, south of the Danube River and east of the Inn River. The inhabitants were originally illyrere but later immigrated also Celts. The area of Rome in 16 BC, but in the fifth and sixth century, Germanic tribes penetrated into north and stayed in power until the area was conquered by Slavs and Avars around 600th)<br><br>The name comes from Celje name Kelleia, which was a large Celtic settlement in the third and second century BC The name was changed to Celeia during Roman times and the town flourished as a Roman administrative center. The name was changed to Celeia Cilli within the family of counts and princes of Celje in the Middle Ages. Their power reached a climax in the 14th and 15 century since their political power represented ambitions for the area of the Count of Hapsburg. On 11 April 1451, Friderik II, Prince of Celje, christened the city of Celje. <br><br> Despite attacks from the Turks, fire and plague, the town grew rapidly and developed into the marketing center. After construction of the railway from Vienna to Trieste, the son came to Celje in 1846, the town became an important industrial, commercial, cultural and educational center. Between the world wars, Celje was the third major city in the Drava region. |
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