Laznica

Laznica (Cyrillic Лазница ) is a place in the Opština Žagubica in northeastern Serbia. It belongs to the district Braničevo.

Geography

The town lies on the River Laznica Kamenička in a basin ( Polje ) east of the Morava in Serbia. It is located on the eastern edge of the Polje, which is bounded by the Homolje Mountains.

The Kamenička opens into the Mlava. This river drains the Polje by a valley cut in the Northwest.

Laznica one of the largest places of the district Braničevo he had in 2002 about 2,050 inhabitants. The town is located north of Žagubica and southwest of the community Opština Majdanpek of boron Okruges the Timok Krajina region.

Name

The name Laznica and its spelling variants Loznica, Laßnitz etc. comes in southeastern Europe before several times. He comes from the Slavic word meaning a stream, which consists of a forest or a clearing field ( meadow, Au, etc.) or is the area that lies on such a stream. The name is, for example, translated as " forest stream ," " Gereutbach ", " Rodebach ", "Meadow Brook" or Aubach. These derivatives are attributed to old forms of names. Possible clues to the course of the stream in a clearing area also offer the derivations of " clearing, Gereut, bright spot in the woods " or " in the wet meadows ."

The name Kamenička is also used in Slavic or former Slavic settlement areas. He and his variants ( Kamnitz, Kamenice, Chemnitz, Kamenz, Kamenica, chamois, etc.) goes to the Slavic term for a rocky or stony field coming from Bach ( Steinbach, etc.) back (Sorbian Kamjenica " Steinbach " of kamjeń - the stone, also Slovenian: kamen'nica ).