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Bleiburg

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Bleiburg is a small city in the south Austrian state of Carinthia, south-east of Klagenfurt, within the district of Volkermarkt, some 4 kilometres from the border with Slovenia.The municipality includes the twelve Katastralgemeinden Aich, Bleiburg, Grablach, Kommel, Moos , Oberloibach, Rinkenberg , Sankt Margarethen, Schattenberg, Unterloibach, Weißenstein and Woroujach. According to a 2001 census, 30.Four% of the population are Carinthian Slovenes. The border town is positioned within the valley of the Feistritz creek, a proper tributary of the Drava, north of the Peca massif of the Karavanke mountain range.

It is domestic to a district court docket, military barracks and to the neighborhood effective and services enterprise. The name of Bleiburg, literally which means 'Lead Castle', can be attributed to the lead mining operations within the Peca mountain. The region changed into part of the Liupicdorf estate in the Duchy of Carinthia, which about a thousand Bishop Albuin I of Brixen committed to his brother Count Aribo. The oldest surviving file mentioning the city as castrum et forum Pliburch is dated to 1228.

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