Talk:Brestanica

Other names

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

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