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[[File:Alojzij Knafelc 1920s.jpg|thumb|Alojz Knafelc in the 1920s]]
[[File:markacija.svg|thumb|The Knafelc blaze]]
'''Alojz Knafelc''' (23 June 1859 – 26 April 1937) was a [[Slovenes|Slovene]] [[cartography|cartographer]], mountaineer and the inventor of the [[Slovenia|Slovene]] [[trail blaze]].

==Life and work==
Knafelc was born in [[Šmihel pri Novem Mestu]]. At first he worked as a drawer for the project of constructing the [[railway]] connection between [[Hrpelje]] and [[Kozina]]. Here he had to take care of different signatures and [[measurement table]]s. Several times he recoloured the [[Aljaž Tower]] on [[Triglav]]. He also wrote the instructions on path-blazing, published in 1922 in the [[Alpine Gazette]] ({{langx|sl|Planinski vestnik}}). He died in [[Ljubljana]].

==Knafelc blaze==
The Knafelc blaze, introduced in 1922, is a white dot inside a red ring. The outer diameter should be between {{convert|8|and|10|cm|abbr=on}}, with the inner radius about half of the outer radius. A variant with a yellow dot in the center is used for the [[European long-distance paths]] [[European walking route E6|E6]] and [[European walking route E7|E7]]. A variant with a green ring around a red ring and a white dot in the center is used on the borders of the country. The ''Knafelc blaze'' ({{lang|sl|Knafelčeva markacija}}) was later used all over [[Yugoslavia]] and is prescribed for Slovenia by the 2007 Mountain Paths Act ({{lang|sl|Zakon o planinskih poteh}}).

==References==
* [http://www.posta.si/downloadfile.aspx?fileid=14281 Knafelc's biography]. Bojan Bračič. 2009. Published by the Post of Slovenia.

==External links==
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[[Category:1859 births]]
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[[Category:Slovenian inventors]]
[[Category:Slovenian cartographers]]
[[Category:Slovenian mountain climbers]]
[[Category:People from the Urban Municipality of Novo Mesto]]
[[Category:Inventors from Austria-Hungary]]

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