Styria

We’ve already met Carmilla, the scheming vampire lady who betrayed Dracula and attempted a coup, only to be turned aside and sent packing back to Styria with her army (and forgemaster Hector) at her side.

Although the story is primarily centered around the exploits of General Spielsdorf, it nonetheless relates directly to events which unfold within Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria.

Coming from two directions, North (via today's East Austria and Czech Republic), settling in the area of today's Carinthia and west Styria and South (via today's Slavonia), settling in the area of today's central Slovenia.

Conflict was precipitated by two factors: Matthias, already aging and without children, made his cousin Ferdinand of Styria his heir and had him elected king in 1617.

For the Slovene culture, Graz remains permanently important due to its university and the Universalmuseum Joanneum archives containing numerous documents from the Slovenian Styria.

Graz is the capital and largest city in Styria, a green and heavily forested area.

He subdued the quarrelsome nobles and made himself ruler of most of the area, including Austria, Styria, and Corinthia.

In 1129 Margrave Leopold the Strong of Styria called upon the Cistercians to develop his recently acquired March which bordered Austria on the south.

In Austria, the grape varieties known as Feinburgunder in Burgenland & Vienna and Morillon in Styria was not identified as Chardonnay till the late 1980s.

It was bounded on the north by Carinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria; with area of convert and population of 510,000.

Killers Following the version of Ottokar of Styria, should be sought among the Wrocław townspeople (just like Henry IV's father) two brothers, one of them was lawyer and the other doctor.

Lower Styria was reattached to the Reichsgau Steiermark from 1942 to 1945, whence it was returned to Germany.

Ottokar of Styria told the story in many details in agreement with that provided by the Kronika Zbrasławska.

The lowest of the Alpine passes at convert, the Semmering crosses from Lower Austria to Styria ; since the 12th century when a hospice was built there it has seen continuous use.

The province of Styria had rich iron ore deposits, and the country as a whole was home to many skilled labourers that would also be useful.

The Turks made incursions into Styria nearly twenty times; churches, monasteries, cities, and villages were destroyed and plundered, while the population was either killed or carried away into slavery.

White Carniola (Bela krajina), otherwise part of Lower Carniola, is usually considered a separate region, as is the Central Sava Valley (Zasavje), which is otherwise a part of Upper and Lower Carniola and Styria.