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Sep 29, 1901 Škofja Loka, Upper Carniola, Slovenia Died on 14 Jan 1992 (aged 90)
Slovene geographer
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About France Planina
- France Planina (29 September 1901 – 14 January 1992) was a Slovene geographer and cartographer.Planina was born in Škofja Loka in 1901.
- He graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1925 and taught in secondary schools in Otocac, Kranj and Ljubljana.
- During the Second World War he was interred in the Gonars concentration camp.
- After the war he continued to teach and also worked at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia.
- He retired in 1962.
- He died in Ljubljana in 1992.
- In 2001 a bronze bust to Planina was unveiled in Škofja Loka.In 1967 he won the Levstik Award for his book Jugoslavija (Yugoslavia).
