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Klagenfurt am Wörthersee [4] (German: [ˌklaːɡn̩fʊʁt ʔam ˈvœʁtɐzeː] ⓘ; [5] Slovene: Celovec; [6] Austro-Bavarian: Klognfuat; Carinthian Slovene: Clouvc; usually known as simply Klagenfurt (English: / ˈ k l ɑː ɡ ən f ʊər t / KLAH-gən-foort [7])) is the capital and largest city of the Austrian state of Carinthia, as well as of the historical region of Carinthia including ...
This is a complete list of the cities and towns in Austria. There is no legal distinction between town and city in Austria; a Stadt (city) is an independent municipality that has been given the right to use that title. Below is a list of some of the largest cities by population, as well as a full listing of all cities and municipalities of Austria.
The name of the city, Graz, formerly spelled Gratz [8] and also formlerly known as Grätz, most likely stems from the Slavic gradec/gradac, which means "small castle".Some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by Alpine Slavic people, [9] who settled in the region after the Barbarian invasions drove out the original Celts, as well as the Romans.
Vienna (/ v i ˈ ɛ n ə / ⓘ vee-EN-ə; [9] [10] German: Wien ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants.
Linz (/ l ɪ n t s / LINTS, [1] German: ⓘ; Czech: Linec [ˈlɪnɛt͡s]) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria.Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, 30 km (19 mi) south of the border with the Czech Republic.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; Help. Austria portal; Pages in category "Names of places in Austria" The following 5 pages are in this category, out ...
The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, and Burgenland is situated in the Danube valley and thus consists almost completely of accessible and easily arable terrain. Austria's most densely populated federal state is Vienna, the heart of what is Austria's only metropolitan area. Lower Austria ...
The town is first mentioned as Medilica in 831 in a donation of Louis the German; the name is from a Slavic word for 'border.' [3] The area around Melk was given to Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, in the year 976 to serve as a buffer between the Magyars to east and Bavaria to the west.