Selo stands on the left bank of the Ljubljanica River on a slight bend just west of the mouth of the Gruber Canal,[3] at the site of the former sharp bend where the river's course was straightened in 1835.[4]
Name
In older sources, the village was referred to as Sello an der Fabri(c)k[5][6] (literally, 'Selo by the factory'), referring to a cloth factory established opposite Selo Mansion in the first half of the 18th century.[3] The name Selo is common in Slovenia and is derived from the common noun selo 'settlement, village'.[7]
History
Selo was attested as a village in the 14th century.[3] Selo Mansion was built in Selo in 1760 and initially served as a Jesuit College retreat from Trieste.[3] Together with the entire former Municipality of Moste, Selo was annexed by Ljubljana in 1935, ending its existence as a separate settlement.[3][8]
Selo had a population of a population of 149 (in 13 houses) in 1880,[9] 253 (in 17 houses) in 1900,[10] and 2,108 (in 102 houses) in 1931.[1]
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Selo include:
^Raffelsperger, Franz (1848). Allgemeines geographisch-statistisches Lexikon aller Österreichischen Staaten. Vienna: k.k. a. p. typo-geographischen Kunstanstalt. p. 930.
^Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. pp. 371–372.
^"Rojstvo velike Ljubljane". Kronika Slovenskih Mest (in Slovenian). 2 (3): 244–245. 1935.
^Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. 1884. p. 61.
^Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. 1906. p. 110.
^"Mešutar, Andrej (1791–1865)". Slovenska biografija. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
^Klein, Anton (1842). Geschichte des Christenthums in Oesterreich und Steiermark. Vienna: Verein zur Verbreitung Guter Katholischer Bücher. p. 183.