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Revision as of 13:56, 4 January 2010
History
Notable development of town Kropa begun in 14th century. Important archaeological finding of how iron was forged in middle ages is so called Slovene Furnace that was found during excavations for the road towards Jamnik village above Kropa. In 15th century already two iron forging furnaces and blacksmith workshops existed. Peak of iron forging was in 18th and 19th century two iron foundries, 7 blacksmith semimanufactures (cajnarica) and 19 nail blacksmith workshops (vignjenc)were operating. Foundaries closed the end of 19th century, because of shortage of iron ore.