Oberkärnten#

Oberkaernten, Upper Carinthia, western part of the province of Carinthia, high-alpine region, includes the Drau valley between the Tiroler Tor mountain narrow and the end of River Gail, the Moell valley, the Lieser valley and the Gail valley; part of the Carinthian Hohe Tauern mountains, the Reisseck Mountains and the Kreuzeck Mountains, the Nock Mountains, the Gailtal Alps and the Carnian Alps (on Austrian territory). Administrative division: political districts Spittal an der Drau, Hermagor, Villach City and a large part of Villach Land. Main town: Villach. During the Middle Ages constituted the domains of Lurn and Ortenburg, from 1809-1814 part of the "Illyrian Provinces" of France under Napoleon.