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Lienz is located at a road junction between the Drautalstraße highway, leading from Carinthia to the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol (B100), and the Felbertauernstraße (B108) from Lienz to Mittersill in Salzburg. It is also connected by the Drautalbahn railway line from Villach to Innichen in South Tyrol.
The Bezirk Lienz (Italian: Distretto di Lienz) is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria.It is the only district in East Tyrol.The district borders the Pinzgau in the north, the districts Spittal an der Drau and Hermagor (both Carinthia) in the east, Veneto in the south, and South Tyrol in the west.
Upon the extinction of the line in 1500, Sillian was seized by the House of Habsburg king Maximilian I and incorporated into the County of Tyrol. Up to World War I, Sillian was a garrison town of the Austro-Hungarian Army. By the 1919 Treaty of Saint Germain, it became a border town close to the South Tyrolean lands of the Italian kingdom.
East Tyrol, occasionally East Tirol (German: Osttirol), is an exclave of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, separated from North Tyrol by parts of Salzburg State and parts of Italian South Tyrol (Südtirol, Italian: Alto Adige). It is coterminous with the administrative district of Lienz.
The location of Austria Flag-map of Austria An enlargeable relief map of Austria. ... Tyrol Lienz (district) LZ: Lienz: Tyrol Reutte (district) RE:
Tyrol is bordered to the north by the state of Bavaria and to the east by the states of Carinthia and Salzburg. West of Tyrol lies the state of Vorarlberg and the canton of Grisons. On the southern side of Tyrol, the land is bordered by the regions of Veneto and Lombardy. Important rivers in Tyrol are the Adige, Inn and Drau. The region is ...
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Innervillgraten is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The region is one of the most remote regions in Austria. A year-long connection to the valley was established as late as 1956. The death of Pius Walder, a wood cutter and poacher, who had been shot by Johann Schett, led to some touristic and media interest.