Maribor

Location o Maribor on the map o Slovenie

Skyline o Maribor

Maribor ( pronunciation^?) (German: Marburg an der Drau) is the seicont lairgest ceety in Slovenie wi 95,787 inhabitants Template:As o.^[1] Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meetin point o the Pohorje muntain, the Drava Valley, the Drava Plain, an the Kozjak an Slovenske gorice hill ranges. Maribor's coat o airms features a white dove flying dounwards abuin a white castle wi twa touers an a portcullis on a red shield.

Maribor is an aa the seat o the Municipality o Maribor, which haes 112,642 inhabitants Template:As o,^[2] an the center o the Slovenian region o Lawer Styrie an its lairgest ceety. Maribor Airport is the seicont lairgest internaitional airport in Slovenie.

Table o contents

1 History
2 Ceety destricts
3 Internaitional relations
- 3.1 Twin touns — sister ceeties
4 References
5 Freemit airtins

[edit] History

Medieval Maribor

In 1164 a castle kent as the Marchburch (Middle Hie German for "Mairch Castle") wis documentit in Styrie. It wis first built on Piramida Hill, juist abuin the ceety. Maribor wis first mentioned as a mercat near the castle in 1204, an received toun privileges in 1254. It began tae grow rapidly efter the victory o Rudolf I o Habsburg ower Otakar II o Bohemie in 1278. Maribor athstuid sieges bi Matthias Corvinus in 1480 an 1481 an bi the Ottoman Empire in 1532 an 1683, an the ceety remained unner the control o the Habsburg Monarchy till 1918.

Maribor, previously in the Catholic Diocese o Graz-Seckau, became pairt o the Diocese o Lavant on 1 Juin 1859, an the seat o its Prince-Bishop. The name o the diocese (efter a river in Carinthie) wis later chynged tae the Diocese o Maribor on 5 Mairch 1962. It wis elevatit tae an airchdiocese bi Pape Benedict XVI on 7 Aprile 2006.

[edit] Ceety destricts

The ceety destricts (Template:Lang-sl)

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City districts and other parts of the municipality of Maribor

The ceety o Maribor haes 12 destricts as leetit belaw, but the whole Municipality o Maribor an aa includes Kamnica, Pekre, Limbuš, Razvanje, Malečnik-Ruperče an Brestrenica-Gaj. The river Drava divides the destricts Center, Koroška Vrata, Melje an Ivan Cankar frae the ither destricts o the ceety. They are aw connectit wi 4 traffic bridges, 1 train bridge an 1 pedestrian brig.