Raabs an der Thaya is a municipality with 3,114 inhabitants in Waidhofen an der Thaya (district) in the

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, near the

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n border with the

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. About 27.6 percent of the municipality is forested. The German Thaya and the

Moravian Thaya The Moravian Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a left tributary of the Thaya River. It flows through the Vysočina Region, Vysočina and South Bohemian Region, South Bohemian regions and through Lower Austria. It is long. C ...

unite to form the

Thaya The Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a right tributary of the Morava (river), Morava River. It flows through the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic and through Lower Austria in Austria. It is formed by the conflue ...

at Raabs. Raabs Castle, built in the last half of the 11th century, has been exonymically called ''Rakous'' (formerly ''Rakús'') by neighbouring

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, which is the origin in the

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, in Old Polish ''Rakusy'' and Slovak name for Austria as a whole, ''Rakousko''/''Rakúsko''.

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Cities and towns in Waidhofen an der Thaya District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub