English Styria
State (pop., 2001: 1,183,303), southeastern Austria.
Inhabited since the Stone Age, the region came under Roman rule as part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum . It was ruled by the Bavarians in the 8th century, belonged to the duchy of Carinthia after 976, and was made a frontier territory of the Frankish empire in the 11th century. The area became a duchy in 1180 and a Reichsgau (party district) under the Anschluss (incorporation into Germany). Steiermark has an area of 6,327 sq mi (16,387 sq km), and its capital is {{link=Graz">Graz .