Klagenfurt (aut)

Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt ranks 992nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Iwate Prefecture, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and India. Memorable people born in Klagenfurt include Robert Musil, Josef Stefan, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Memorable people who died in Klagenfurt include Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Svetozar Boroević, and Oskar Potiorek. Klagenfurt has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Klagenfurt is located in Austria.

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital and largest city of the Austrian state of Carinthia, as well as of the historical region of Carinthia including Slovene Carinthia. With a population of 104,862, it is the sixth-largest city in Austria after Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the University of Klagenfurt, the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences and the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music. Klagenfurt is considered the cultural centre of the Carinthian Slovenes, one of Austria's indigenous minorities. Read more on Wikipedia