!!!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.
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