Sveta Gera

With its height of convert|1181|m,cite web| url = http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv_Eng/ljetopis/2005/01-tab.pdf |title = Mountains and mountain peaks above 500 meters |publisher = Republic of Croatia - Central Bureau of Statistics
language = English and Croatian |accessdate = 2008-09-09] Sveta Gera (Croatian) or Trdinov vrh (Slovene) on the border between Slovenia and Croatia is the highest peak of the Žumberak/Gorjanci mountain.

In Slovene, the peak was originally called "Sveta Jera" after the 15th century church of Saint Gertrude some hundred meters from the highest point of the peak. In 1923, however, the president of the Novo Mesto Mountaineering Club Ferdinand Seidl proposed the renaming after Janez Trdina, an ardent describer of the region. On 15 August 1923, the peak was solemnly renamed by a Slovene girl, whereas the accompanying ecclesiastic rituals were performed by a Croatian priest. [cite web |url=http://www.planinsko-drustvo-nm.si/gorjanci/Pd-nm4.htm |title=Gorjanci |publisher=Novo Mesto Mountaineering Club |accessdate=2008-09-19 |language=Slovene]

On its summit that is claimed by both Croatia and Slovenia [cite news |url = http://24ur.com/novice/slovenija/ne-ljubimo-svojega-bliznjega.html |title=(Ne)ljubimo svojega bližnjega |publisher=24ur.com |date=2004-06-30 |accessdate=2008-09-29 |language=Slovene] [cite news |url=http://www.dnevnik.si/tiskane_izdaje/dnevnik/264925/ |title=Dogovor Janša - Sanader: Nerešena meja se seli v Haag: Kje na kopnem ni soglasja |publisher =Dnevnik |date=2007-08-27 |accessdate=2008-09-29 |language=Slovene] and recorded in the Croatian land register stands an old Yugoslav People's Army barracks building used as an outpost by the Slovenian Army.Fact|date=June 2008 Control over the military complex is part of the dispute between the two states as well. Owing to diplomacy, the dispute has not escalated.

In March 1999, Milan Kučan, then president of Slovenia, called the usage of the barracks building as a military outpost of either Slovenian or Croatian Army as controversial and "at least uncivilized". [cite web |url=http://www2.gov.si/up-rs/1992-2002/mk.nsf/13bce3bd416be561c125678c003a8115/43397c5257a9ee93c125678c0052964d?OpenDocument |title=Radio Slovenia - Studio ob 17.00 |date=1999-03-11 |accessdate=2008-06-09 |language=Slovene] In 2004, he argued for the Croatian TV that it would be better to open a mountain hut there. [cite web |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/modload.php?&c_mod=rnews&op=sections&func=read&c_menu=1&c_id=25937 |title=Kučan za HTV: sem optimist |date=2004-02-22 |accessdate=2008-06-09 |language=Slovene]

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