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  • 131Melk, Cloister —    Situated in Lower Austria above the Danube River, the Benedictine cloister of Melk is one of Austria’s most imposing structures. The town of the same name at the foot of the complex was the seat of the Babenberg margraves of Austria after 976 …

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  • 132South Tyrol —    Situated south of the Brenner Pass with its capital in Bolzano (Bozen), the South Tyrol is a region of mixed population and language. At the end of World War I, with the Italian army occupying the area, it contained roughly 220,000 Germans and …

    Historical dictionary of Austria