Hrovača
Hrovača (; ) is a settlement immediately to the southeast of the town of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. It lies just south of the town of Ribnica. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Name. The name "Hrovača" is derived from the word "Hrvat" 'Croat'. Like similar names (e.g., "Hrvatini" and "Hrobači", a hamlet of Dobravlje), it originally referred to medieval Croatian resettlement from the south connected with Ottoman occupation of the central Balkans. In the past the German name was "Krobatsch". Mass grave. Hrovača is the  site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Bašelj Shaft 2 Mass Grave () is located in the woods northeast of Hrovača, about south of Podtabor, on the north slope of Chicken Hill (). Spelunkers have reported human remains at the site. Church. The local church, built next to the cemetery on the southern outskirts of the settlement, is dedicated to the Holy Trinity () and belongs to the parish of Ribnica. It was built in 1909 on the site of a 16th-century church originally dedicated to Saint James.