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Muha Vas
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Muha Vas was a <a href="/facts/Gottschee_County/JSQJreaB">Gottschee German</a> village. It was attacked and laid waste in an Ottoman raid in 1491. In the land registry of 1574 it had two full farms divided into half farms and two tenant farmers. Due to their small farms and exposure to the danger of Ottoman raids, the farmers paid a low tax and performed <a href="/facts/Corv%25C3%25A9e/Rl2h4KgG">corvée</a> only one day per year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> The settlement had 11 houses in 1770, but only seven in 1825. The peak population of the village was 60 in 1880, but by 1910 this had declined to 36. In 1936 the village had nine houses and 46 residents (10 German, 8 Slovene, and 28 ethnically mixed). At that time, the economy of the village was based on <a href="/facts/Subsistence_agriculture/Djjy4FH3">subsistence agriculture</a> and peddling. Schooling was offered in nearby <a href="/facts/Podlesje/enw8cW8b">Podlesje</a>. The German inhabitants were evicted during the Second World War, on 18 December 1941.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>After the war, six of the nine houses in the village were still in usable condition, and there was a population of 15. The population had declined to nine people in four houses by 1948.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> In 1961 only one house remained in the village, and by 1971 it was vacant and deteriorating.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.geopedia.world/#T12_L362_F2473:4979_x1662013.0544320284_y5706741.199538069_s15_b2345">Muha Vas on Geopedia</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.gottscheerland.at/ortsplaene/Oberfliegendorf.pdf">Pre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Muha Vas</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, pp. 159–160. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Kočevje municipal site <a href="http://www.obcinakocevje.si/" target="_blank">http://www.obcinakocevje.si/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia <a href="http://www.stat.si/krajevnaimena/default.asp?txtIme=MUHA%20VAS&selNacin=celo&selTip=naselja&ID=1634" target="_blank">http://www.stat.si/krajevnaimena/default.asp?txtIme=MUHA%20VAS&selNacin=celo&selTip=naselja&ID=1634</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Savnik, Roman (1971). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 233. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, pp. 159–160. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, pp. 159–160. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Savnik, Roman (1971). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 233. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>