{"id":63,"date":"2012-11-06T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/blogs\/history\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2018-08-05T10:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:51:13","slug":"zilje","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/the-places-we-come-from\/bela-krajina-white-carniola\/crnomelj\/preloka\/zilje\/","title":{"rendered":"Zilje"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zilje is a settlement above the left bank of the Kolpa River in the Municipality of \u010crnomelj<\/a> in the White Carniola<\/a> area of southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia statistical region.<\/p>\n

If Zilje existed in the 12th<\/sup> century, it would have likely been under the control of the Kingdom of Croatia, and under the Diocese of Zagreb (and under the archdeaconate of Gorica). After 1228, it would have been under the control of the Counts of Vi\u0161nja Gora (Weichselburg<\/em>), and under the Diocese of Aquileia (and under the Parish of \u010crnomelj). In the early 14th<\/sup> century, the Parish of Vinica<\/a> was created, and Zilje fell under it’s control.<\/p>\n

The church of St. Anton the Abbot (or Hermit) was not documented in the List of churches by archdeaconate in the Diocese of Zagreb<\/em> in 1334. The earliest constructions of other churches with patron St. Anton in central Europe were in the 14th<\/sup> century. So, it is likely the church in Zilje was built in the late 14th<\/sup> century. The village of Zilje, therefore, must have existed before this, as a hamlet.<\/p>\n

The church of St. Anton the Abbot (or Hermit) is first mentioned in 1526 in the Inventarium ober die k\u00fcrchen Cleinodien in ganzen Land Crain<\/em> (an inventory of churches and sacral objects in Carniola).\u00a0 At this time, the church had no association and the one chalice it had was taken by the Turks. This is also, then, the earliest definite account of the existence of the village of Zilje.<\/p>\n

The first outright mention of the village by name Syll<\/em> comes in the Urbarium des Schloss Weinitz an der Kulpp<\/em> (Urbarium of the Dominion of Vinica on the Kolpa) in 1674. Zilje at the time was the administrative centre that encompassed the village of Zilje and the hamlets of Balkovci<\/a>, Pavlini<\/a> and Dejani<\/a>. The Urbarium<\/em> tells us a great deal about the village, it\u2019s people and the area at this time. In 1674 there were 3 mills between Srednje Zilje<\/a> and Dejani<\/a> (one in Srednje Zilje jointly owned by Ive and Jakob Cveta\u0161 [Zwitaschitsch], one in Pavlini owned by a Balkovec, and one in Dejani also owned by a Balkovec). There was also good fishing in the Kolpa between U\u010dakovci<\/a> and Dejani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"zilje\"<\/a>Johann Weichard Valvasor in his work Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain<\/em> from 1689 indicates there was a guard tower built south of the village of Zilje.<\/p>\n

The next document that names Zilje (in German as Syllee<\/em>) was in 1690 in the Urbarium<\/em> of the Dominion of Krupa, and the village still encompasses Zilje, Balkovci, Pavlini and Dejani. At this time, Miha Pavlin (possibly Miko Pavli\u010di\u010d) was \u017eupan<\/em> of this area.<\/p>\n

The church in Zilje was first documented in 1753 with the new patron St. Antony of Padua, and was remodeled at that time in the Baroque style. In 1888 it underwent a major rebuilding and the main altar dates also to this time.<\/p>\n

In 1787, the village of Zilje was transferred to the new lokalija<\/em> of Preloka<\/a>, administered under the Parish of Vinica<\/a>, but semi-autonomous.<\/p>\n

The administrative area of Zilje continued to include the hamlets of Balkovci, Pavlini and Dejani until the late 1700s, when the new gemeinde<\/em> (community) of Balkovci was created under the Josephian Cadastre in 1787.\u00a0 This was the first cadastre to deliniate gemeinden<\/em>. This is evident in changes of house numbering around this time \u2013 what was \u201cZilje 1\u201c became \u201cBalkovci 1\u201c.<\/p>\n

Continue onward to explore the history of the People of Zilje<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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