Jesenice

Jesenice is a town and a municipality in Slovenia, on the Slovene side of the Karavanke mountain range, south of Austria. It is known for the biggest Slovenian steel making company and its hockey club. It got its name from ash tree (jesen in Slovenian language). The history of Jesenice is tightly knit with ironworks and metallurgy, since those have been only until recently the driving forces of Jesenice development in practically all departments.

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Jesenice lies in the Upper Carniola region, in the Gornjesavska valley. It is surrounded by Karavanke mountain range in north and by Me?akla in south; across Karavanke there is austrian Villach. There is Kranjska Gora 15 kilometres northwest and Bled 10 kilometres southeast. Jesenice climate is somewhere between temperate and continental with influences of alpine.

Karavanke: Karavanke (German: Karawanken) is a mountain range on the border between Slovenia and Austria....

Austria: The Republic of Austria (German: Republik ?sterreich) is a landlocked country in central Europe. It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The capital is the city of Vienn...

Steel: :See Steel (disambiguation) for other uses....