Talk:Brestanica
Other names[edit]
The first edition (1991) of Where Once We Walked, a gazetteer of WWII-era Eastern Europe, cites as other names for Brestanica:
- Reichenburg
- Rajhenburg (also Rajhenberg in the online "Town Search" engine of the JewishGen Communities Database
Can these names be verified or otherwise attributed? -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Notable people[edit]
Archiving a list of notable people here (per Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. pp. 127–128) after they were removed by another editor that has not examined the cited source:
- Mirko Avsenak (1905–1983), historian and geographer
- Gabriel Giraud (1836–1899), founder of the Brestanica monastery
- Franc Jamšek (1840–1892), education specialist
- Blaženka Košmelj (born 1925), economist and statistician
- Janez Kranjc (1817–1908), school textbook author
- Mirko Leskovšek (born 1923), agricultural expert
- Ivan Matko (1885–1945), internal medicine and tuberculosis expert
- Vitko Musek (1917–1994), film critic and journalist
- Dragotin Přibil (1877–1944), education specialist and translator
- Franc Rainer (1902–?), forestry and soil erosion expert
- Vitko Rudež (born 1932), physician and medical author
- Hinko Šuklje (1866–1903), social activist