Travni Dol (; ,Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. also Drandol, Gottscheerish: TrandulPetschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a small settlement in the hills south of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.Novo Mesto municipal site In January 2026, the population was 11.
Name The Slovene name Travni Dol literally means 'grassy valley'. The German name Drandul (or Drandol) and the Gottscheerish name Trandul are approximations of the Slovene name.Tschinkel, Hans. 1908. Grammatik der Gottscheer Mundart. Halle: Max Niemeyer, p. 120. The name of the settlement was also recorded as Traundul in the land registry of 1574 and in 1881."Locales" 1881. Laibacher Zeitung no. 169 (28 July), p. 1442. The name Travni Dol and names like it (e.g., Trava) are derived from the Slovene common noun trava 'grass'.
History Travni Dol was listed in the land registry of 1574 but no information on the number of houses or inhabitants was provided. It was not listed at all in the 1770 census and may have been overlooked. In 1937 the village had 12 houses and a population of 37. The villagers farmed for their own needs and also exported wood to Zagreb via Uršna Sela.Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 867–868. During the Second World War, Italian forcesStrle, Franci. 1980. Tomšičeva brigada. Ljubljana: Partizanska knjiga, p. 54. burned six houses in the village. They were not rebuilt after the war. A reunion of Gottschee Germans was held in Travni Dol on 19 and 20 June 1999, attended by Slovene and Austrian government representatives.Auersperger, Alenka. 2004. Iskalci grala: poskus oživljanja nemške manjšine v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: Modrijan, pp. 193–194.
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External links Travni Dol on Geopedia Pre–World War II map of Travni Dol with oeconyms and family names