Metlika

Metlika lies in White Carniola, near the Kolpa River. It received town privileges in 1335, shortly before its name appeared in the form Metlika in a surviving record of 1337. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the town suffered repeated Ottoman raids. Metlika Castle, above the old town, dates originally from the fifteenth century. A fire destroyed the town in 1705, after which both the castle and the parish church of St Nicholas were rebuilt. The castle was again damaged by fire in 1790. These buildings reflect the town's experience of frontier conflict and repeated reconstruction within the Carniolan lands.