The Polhov Gradec Hills (
Slovene: Polhograjsko hribovje, also Polhograjski Dolomiti, Polhograjci, and Pograjci) are a
pre-Alpine hilly region of northwestern
Slovenia. To the north they border the
Škofja Loka Hills, and to the south they border the
Ljubljana Basin and the
Ljubljana Marsh. The largest watercourse is the
Gradaščica River. In 1971, a proposal was put forward to protect the region as a
nature park, but it was never formally adopted.[1]
Name
The hills are named after
Polhov Gradec, the central settlement in the range. In German, they were known as the Billichgra(t)zer Gebirge[2][3] or Billichgra(t)zer Bergen[4][5] (both based on the German name for Polhov Gradec). Slovene geographers have rejected the Slovene name Polhograjski Dolomiti (literally, Polhov Gradec Dolomites) as inappropriate.[6]
^Müllner, Alfons (1879). Emona: archaeologische Studien aus Krain. Ljubljana: Kleinmayr. p. 10.
^Sima, Johann (1892). Im Billichgrazer Gebirge: Berg- und Talwanderungen. Ljubljana.{{
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^Die Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild. Vol. 8: Kärnten und Krain. Vienna: Druck und Verlag der k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1891. p. 279.
^Voss, Wilhelm (1884). Versuch einer Geschichte der Botanik in Krain (1754 bis 1883). Ljubljana: Kleinmayr. p. 47.