Styria

(German Steiermark, slovinsky Styria) Land is in the southeast of Austria. In terms of area is the second largest Austrian province, its area is 16 388 km ². It borders with Slovenia and Austria within the borders with the provinces of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Burgenland and Carinthia. Today Province of Styria includes about 2/3 area full of Styria, which included the so-called.

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Lower Styria, which belonged to since 1918 the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and is now part of Slovenia. Austrian province of Styria is also Slovenians called "Upper Styria" (Upper Styria). In Austria, the term "Upper Styria" is used for the area around the town of Bruck an der Mur in the north of the Land. Styria was relatively short period included volume Czech and Alpine countries under the rule of Ottokar II. - In fact since 1261 do 1276. Hollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzeneggerse born and raised in Styria, as well as the laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2004 Elfriede Jelinek. Styria is divided into 16 districts (Districts) a statutory town (Statutory) Graz.