Slovenian Home Land

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Work in progress. Please pardon the dust and inaccuracy.

General Area

These four families all hail from Eastern Slovenia and nestled between Zagreb (capital of Croatia) and Liblijuana (capital of Slovenia). Likely with Zagreb being more accessible (down river and through valley's), many who stayed settled in the Zagreb area and changed over to speaking Croatian.

The map shown below can be clicked on to see it full screen (right click to open in another window or tab). Sentjernej is the home of the Jordan and Baznik families and sits fairly close to the middle between the two capitals. After the death of the parents, the kids were scattered to Trebnje and Zagreb beside USA. Krsko is the general area from where the Kosak clan came from; just a little North East of Sentjernej it ends up. Rogelj may also have been from there as well. All three cities are in the foothills of the southern Alps that comprise a majority of the Slovenian territory.

Source of Information

Most reading this will not have had the opportunity to visit the homeland; either on their own or with the relatives born there. So I will try to bring in photos, maps and the like from visits to the area by relatives and myself. Some, like Karel Jordan and his family, visited almost every year once they were allowed back in. Betty Jordan Kosak went about once a decade with various groups — sisters, her kids and the like. I was a grand kid with her on one of those trips.

Sevni History

Some have asked how I came up with the name Sevni for my business venture of the '00s. The answer lies in this page as well.

Around 2002, it was hard to find unique, unused, simple names. The web name space had been scraped by many prospectors who registered names they thought others would find useful in hopes of making big money on their sale. So I was playing around with variations of words about things that I was doing — consulting to the government, startups, and venture finance community on technology, ideas and ventures. The reverse spelling of Invest, after dropping the letter T, gave a pronounceable name that had not yet been grabbed: Sevni. Doing searches on the web found the name really had no hits. Deeper searches found just two hits: Sevnica, a city in Easter Slovenia, and Sevani in Gujurat — the state my wife was from. This seemed a good omen and justification for the name and so it came to be. The Slovenia map depicting this is shown earlier in this page while the India map is given here now.


Most interestingly Sevnica is now seen as one point of a diamond with the other three cities of my forefathers as the other points. And the Sevani village in India is actually better known as Sevni and very central to the area of Surat and Navsari where my wife's ancestors are from. Maybe we should have stuck with Sevni for this site instead of creating the new name MyCuz !