Mureck ( sl, Cmurek, archaic: ''Cmürek'') is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the

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n state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.

Geography

Mureck is situated in the south of Styria, on the border with

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Constituent parts of Mureck municipality

The municipality comprises the communities of: * Diepersdorf (pop. 138) * Eichfeld (349) * Fluttendorf (59) * Gosdorf (574) * Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (209) * Misselsdorf (388) * Mureck (1570) * Oberrakitsch (334)

Name

The name ''Mureck'' was first attested in 1151 as ''Mŏrekke'' (and as ''Murekke'' in 1181, ''Můrekke'' in 1183, and ''Muregk'' in 1500). The name is a compound of ''Mur'' ' Mur River' +

Old High German Old High German (OHG; german: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050. There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High ...

''ecke'' 'edge, bend' or ''egge'' 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name ''Cmurek'' is borrowed from the

Middle High German Middle High German (MHG; german: Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High German and into Early New High German. High ...

prepositional phrase ''ze Murekke'', literally 'at Mureck'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare '' Crngrob'', '' Cven'', '' Dragonja'', ''