Cven is a village in the Municipality of Ljutomer in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region. Cven was attested in written sources in 1445 as Wyenn and circa 1500 as Wienn. The Slovene name Cven is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Wienn, literall…Cven is a village in the Municipality of Ljutomer in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region. Cven was attested in written sources in 1445 as Wyenn and circa 1500 as Wienn. The Slovene name Cven is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Wienn, literally 'at Wienn'. The name Wienn refers to a manor built in the 14th century by a military commander named Aman. It may be derived from the Middle High German noun win 'acquisition'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Cmurek, Crngrob, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.
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