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Styria bordered on (clockwise) Lower Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, Salzburg and Upper Austria. After World War I in 1918 the southern, Slovene-speaking third south of the river Mur was incorporated into Slovenia in the Yugoslavia. The remaining two thirds, which had a population before World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of that was 68% German-speaking, 32% Slovene, is a federal stateThe States of Austria or Bundeslander (singular Bundesland , are the federal states of Austria. The nine Bundeslander with ISO 3166-2 code are: States of Austria EnglishGerman ISO State capital Area¹ Population² Gov web BurgenlandBurgenlandAT-1B Eisenstad of AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the, while the Slovenian third ( Lower Styria) is an informal province in Slovenia. The traditional capital of the Duchy has always been GrazSchlossberg is in the center. Graz [graːts] ( Slovenian: Gradec , with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the province of Styria Steiermark in German). It has a long tradition of b, the residence of the governor and the seat of the administration of the province.
The Roman history of Styria is as part of Noricum120 AD Noricum in ancient geography was a province of the Roman Empire. It was bounded on the north by the Danube, on the west by Raetia and Vindelicia, on the east by Pannonia, on the south by Pannonia, Italia and Dalmatia. It roughly corresponds to the and PannoniaPannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. Today, Pannonia is largely identical with what is called " Transdanubia" in Hungary., with a Celtic population of the Taurisci . During the great migrations, various German tribes traversed the region using the river valleys and low passes, but about 600 CE the Slavs took possession and settled. When Styria came under the hegemony of Charlemagne as a part of Karantania ( Carinthia), erected as a border territory against the Avar and Slavs, there was a large influx of Bavarii and other Christianized Germanic peoples, whom the bishops of Salzburg and the patriarchs of Aquileia kept faithful to Rome. Bishop Virgilius of Salzburg (745-84), was largely instrumental in establishing a church hierarchy in the Duchy and gained for himself the name of " Apostle of Karantania". In 811 Charlemagne made the Drava River the boundary between the Dioceses of Salzburg and Aquileia.