title: Rožanec
text: # Rožanec
  
  Rožanec (pronounced) is a settlement north of the town of Črnomelj in the White Carniola area of southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
  
  ## Church
  
  The local church, built southeast of the village, is dedicated to Saint George (Slovene: sveti Jurij) and belongs to the Parish of Črnomelj. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1526, but it has Romanesque features, indicating that it is likely to be an earlier structure.
  
  ## Mithraeum
  
  In an abandoned quarry below the church an ancient relief of the god Mithras sacrificing a bull, with the cult characteristic images of Cautes and Cautopates, Sol, a scorpion, a snake, a dog, and a raven, indicate this was the site of a late second-century Mithraeum.
  
  