| geofor5. 02. 2026 13:59:41 |
Turška vratca appear on newer maps. I reviewed Quo, until less than ten years ago the bible of hiking maps and topographic maps. There are no Turška vratca neither on 1:25 000 nor on TTN 1:10 000, let alone on 1:50 000 Julijske Alpe east, TNP 1:50 000, where you find all gates and little gates: Bogatinsko sedlo (Vratca), then Mala vrata, Velika vrata. Also on the fairly new TNP map of the Alpine Association of Slovenia 1:50 000, we find all the above, only no Turška vratca.
I don't know on which map or net record the name first appeared, it surprises me though, since nothing in the mountains changes as fast as in the valley.
Of course I accept the fact that the entry Turška vratca exists on new online published maps, probably first appeared on OpenStreetMap, mapy.cz knows it, outdooraktiv, printed Tabacco as far as I know doesn't, but Kompass doesn't know it. Maybe it would be good to look in Tum's book, Nomenclature of the Julian Alps, or similar literature. Of course, the entry isn't meant to take one side or the other, Cofka probably has her reasons for what she wrote, and Trobec of course has full right from the viewpoint of today's data (maps) to claim what he claims. But for reflection:
when I was young we walked transversals, verticals (SPDT), hiking paths, circuits, later hiking paths, today everything is already trail, who would find their way if another country changed in between  ?
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