Tilled fields and meadows lie below the village to the northwest, along the Gradaščica River, which is prone to flash floods.

[6][7] It is mentioned as Wabnagora or Babnagora in Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's 1689 work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.

In fact, lone cliffs or rock formations are often named Baba 'old woman' or Dedec 'old man' in Slovenia, and it is from this that the toponym Babna Gora and oeconym Babčar are derived.

Valvasor's 1689 The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola states that an "old, destroyed, mighty camp" stood at the top of Veternik Hill and that it was a "large structure, containing fourteen rooms.

The victims were nine members of the Hudnik family from the Martinovec farm (an oeconym) that were killed by the Partisans on November 24, 1942 for sheltering a deserter.