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Oberwart
Oberwart (; ; ) is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the Oberwart (district), same name. With almost 8,000 inhabitants it’s the third largest town in Burgenland, after Eisenstadt and Neusiedl am See. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minority in Burgenland, living in the Upper Őrség or Wart microregion. History The settlement was established in the 11th century by the guards of the Hungarian frontier (''őr''s) together with Unterwart (''Alsóőr'') and Siget in der Wart (''Őrisziget''). It was first mentioned in historical documents in 1327 under the name ''Superior Eör''. It was part of the old Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), county of Vas County (former), Vas until 1921. Old surnames and the special local dialect shows that the population was related to the Székelys of Transylvania (i.e. the guards of the eastern border of Kingdom of Hungary). The community of the ''� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unterwart
Unterwart or Alsóőr (; ; Croatian: ''Dolnja Borta'') is a village in Burgenland, Austria, in the district of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr''). The village lies on the banks of the Pinka river, and it had a population of 964 in 2001 (without Eisenzicken only 724). Unterwart is one of only two settlements in Austria with an ethnic Hungarian majority. It is part of the Upper Őrség microregion, a small Hungarian language island together with Oberwart and Siget in der Wart (''Őrisziget''). History The village was established together with Felsőőr (today Oberwart) in the early Middle Ages. As the name of the villages indicates they were part of the border-zone of the Kingdom of Hungary (''gyepű''). The population was made up of Hungarian frontier guards (''őr''), probably related to the Székelys of Transylvania. The guards constituted a free, privileged community. Alsóőr belonged to the old county of Vas until 1921. In 1327 King Charles I of Hungary confirmed the rights of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberwart (district)
Bezirk Oberwart (; ) is a district in the state of Burgenland in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust .... The population of the district, as of 2022, is 54,353. The largest settlements in the district are Oberwart, Pinkafeld and Großpetersdorf. Municipalities References {{DEFAULTSORT:Oberwart (District) Districts of Burgenland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgenland
Burgenland (; ; ; Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland''; Slovene language, Slovene: ''Gradiščanska''; ) is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland (Austria), state of Austria. It consists of two statutory city (Austria), statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of 171 municipalities. It is long from north to south but much narrower from west to east ( wide at Sieggraben). The region is part of the Centrope Project. The name of Burgenland was invented/coined in 1922, after its territories became part of Austria. The population of Burgenland as of 1 January 2024 is 301,951. Burgenland's capital is Eisenstadt. History The territory of present-day Burgenland was successively part of the Roman Empire, the Hun Empire, the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, the Italy, Italian Kingdom of Odoacer, the Kingdom of the Lombards, the Avar Khaganate, the Frankish Empire, Dominion Aba belonging to the Aba (family); Aba – Koszegi, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Őrség
Upper Őrség (, ; ) is a traditional ethnographic region and a small Hungarian language, Hungarian language island in southern Burgenland, Austria. It consists of the town of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr'') and the two villages of Unterwart (Hun: ''Alsóőr'') and Siget in der Wart (Hun: ''Őrisziget''). The population of the three settlements was 7694 according to the 2001 census, of whom 1922 people (25%) belonged to the ethnic Magyars, Hungarian minority. The economic and cultural center of the microregion is Oberwart/Felsőőr. History In the 11th century the region was part of the border zone (''gyepű'') of the Kingdom of Hungary. The mainly uninhabited frontier was defended by free border guard communities called ''őrök'' és ''lövők'' (guards and archers). In contemporary Latin documents they are called ''spiculatores'' and ''sagittarii''. They were probably related to the border guards of the eastern frontier, the Székelys. The descendants of the guards are still livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siget In Der Wart
Siget in der Wart or Őrisziget (; ) is a small village in Burgenland, Austria, in the district of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr''). The village lies on the banks of the Zicken Bach (''Szék-patak'') and administratively belongs to the neighbouring town of Rotenturm an der Pinka (Hun: ''Vasvörösvár''). According to the 2001 census it had a population of 274. They are almost exclusively ethnic Hungarians. Siget/Őrisziget is part of the Upper Őrség or Wart microregion together with Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr'') and Unterwart (Hun: ''Alsóőr''). History The village was established in the early Middle Ages in the borderzone of the Kingdom of Hungary (''gyepű''). It was first mentioned in historical documents in 1352 under the name ''Zygeth'' ('sziget' means island in Hungarian). The population was made up of Hungarian frontier guards (''őr''), probably related to the Székelys of Transylvania. The guards constituted a free, privileged community. Őrisziget belonged to the old cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District (Austria)
A district ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, pl. ) is a second-level division of the executive (government), executive arm of the Austrian government. District offices are the primary point of contact between residents and the state for most acts of government that exceed municipal purview: Marriage in Austria, marriage licenses, Driving licence in Austria, driver licenses, passports, assembly permits, hunting permits, or dealings with public health officers for example all involve interaction with the district administrative authority (). Austrian constitutional law distinguishes two types of district administrative authority: *district commissions (), district administrative authorities that exist as stand-alone bureaus; *statutory cities ( or ), cities that have been vested with district administration functions in addition to their municipal responsibilities, i.e. district administrative authorities that only exist as a secondary role filled by something that primarily i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vas County (former)
Vas (, , or ) was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now divided between Hungary, Austria and Slovenia. Geography Vas County shared borders with the Austrian lands Lower Austria and Styria (duchy), Styria and the Hungarian counties Sopron County, Sopron, Veszprém County (former), Veszprém and Zala County (former), Zala. It stretched between the river Mur River, Mura in the south, the foothills of the Alps in the west and the river Marcal in the east. The Rába River flowed through the county. Its area was 5474 km² around 1910. History Vas County arose as one of the first ''comitatuses'' of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon, the western part of the county became part of First Austrian Republic, Austria, and a small part in the southwest became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929 as Yugoslavia). The remainder stayed in Hungary. The fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinka
The Pinka () is a river in Central Europe with a length of approximately . Its basin area is . Its source is located in Styria, eastern Austria, next to the provincial border of Burgenland. It passes into Hungary between the villages of and Felsőcsatár, and crosses the Austrian-Hungarian border five times. Further, it flows into the Rába river, itself a tributary of the Danube, near Körmend. Its main tributaries are the , the Zickenbach and the Tauchenbach. Important towns on its course are Pinkafeld and Oberwart, as well as Pinggau, Riedlingsdorf, Rotenturm an der Pinka and Eberau in Austria and Horvátlövő, Pinkamindszent and Körmend in Hungary. Ecology The river provides an important habitat to a number of different animal species, including the Salmo trutta fario, river trout, European bullhead, grey heron and mallard, as well as a variety of dragonflies. Eurasian otter, Otters have also been recorded along the river. References Rivers of Burgenland Rivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone Numbers In Austria
Telephone numbers in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ... have no standard lengths for either area codes or subscriber numbers, meaning that some subscriber numbers may be as short as three digits. Larger towns have shorter area codes permitting longer subscriber numbers in that area. Examples of lengths of telephone numbers Area codes Prefix code with 0 when dialed within Austria: Mobile phone codes In ascending numeric order: *1 Telering was bought by T-Mobile in 2005. As of 2006, Telering uses the network-infrastructure of T-Mobile. As a special requirement of the European commission, many of the former transmitters and frequencies previously operated by Telering were given to Orange and Drei. *2 BoB is a discount service of A1. yesss! was a disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality (Austria)
In the Republic of Austria, the municipality (, sometimes also ) is the administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city. The municipality has municipal corporation, corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary democracy, parliamentary-style representative democracy: a municipal council () elected through a form of party-list proportional representation, party-list system enacts municipal laws, a municipal executive board () and a mayor (, grammatical gender, fem. ) appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently (January 1, 2020) partitioned into 2,095 municipalities, ranging in population from about fifty (the village of Gramais in Tyrol (state), Tyrol) to almost two million (the city of Vienna). There is no unincorporated area, unincorporated territory in Austria. Basics The existence of municipalities and their role as carriers of the right to self-administration are guaranteed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coronation of the Hungarian monarch, coronation of the first king Stephen I of Hungary, Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000;Kristó Gyula – Barta János – Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, , pp. 37, 113, 678 ("Magyarország a 12. század második felére jelentős európai tényezővé, középhatalommá vált."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European factor, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat részévé vált Magyarország.../Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616–644 his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European power. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
