Salzburg (Land of the Federal Republic)

**Salzburg (country)**
national flag	Landeswappen

Base data
state capital:	Salzburg
largest city:	Salzburg
ISO 3166-2:	AT-5
homepage:	www.salzburg.gv.at
map: Salt citizen country in Austria


politics
national main woman	Gabi of all (SPÖ)
governing parties	SPÖ and ÖVP
allocation of seats in the federal state parliament (36 seats):	SPÖ 17 ÖVP 14 FPÖ 3 the Green 2
last choice:	7. March 2004
next choice:	2009
population
inhabitant:	521.238 (annual average 2003)
- rank:	7. of 9
population density:	72 Einwohner/km ²
Geografie
surface:	7.154, 23 km ²
- of itCountry:	7.054, 07 km ² (98.6%)
- of it water:	100.16 km ² (1.4%)
- rank:	6. of 9
highest point:	Grossvenediger 3674 m
administrative arrangement
of districts:	1 Statutarstadt of 5 districts
municipalities:	119
- of it cities:	10
- of it market municipalities:	25
map: Salzburg and districts

the country Salzburg (also salt citizen country) is a Land of the Federal Republic of Austria. Its main river is salt oh, which flows into the Inn.

The country Salzburg borders on upper Austria, Steiermark, Kärnten,(North and east) Tirol, Bavaria and Italy (South Tyrol). In its south the mountain courses of the central alps ( high Tauern) with many three-rope transmitters , in the east and the north roof stone run - massif and Berchtesgadener alps.

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history

the settlement of Salzburg is enough into the before-historical time. From the Celts the oldest name of the city comes: Iuvavum. Among the Romans was Iuvavum inAdministrative district within the province Noricum Ripense. Since that 6. Century belonged the area of the later country Salzburg (without Lungau) to the duchy Baiern. By plant of the ore pin pc. Peter and the woman monastery on the Nonnberg in the ruins of the Roman Juvavum based hl. Rupert around 690 a diocese, which became 798 ore diocese and thus the center of the baierischen church province. This covered almost the entire oldBavarian-Austrian area.

Archbishop Eberhard II., a decided party man of the Staufer, succeeded it 1200 to 1246from counties to develop courts and Vogteien a closed erzbischöfliches rule area. With the acknowledgment of the borders by the Bavaria duke in the year 1275 the last phase of the separation of Salzburg von Bayern begins. 1328 became Salzburg by issuing its own national orderto to a large extent independent state within the “holy Roman realm”. As prince ore diocese landing developed to a church-lay buffer state between Bavaria and the having citizen. 1462 and 1525/26 came it to farmer rebellions. Prince archbishop Leopold Anton count von Firmian forced 1731/32 thoseEmigration of approximately 20,000 Protestanten (“Salzbuger Exulanten”).

Was economical in 16. Jh. not only the salt trade of importance, but also the gold dismantling in Gasteiner the valley. The dismantling quantities were at that time the largest in completely Central Europe.

1803 came thatPrincipality as secularized cure principality to the Grand Duke Ferdinand III. of Toskana, 1805 with Berchtesgaden to Austria. 1810 came it to Bavaria, 1816 (after the Viennese congress) came it without Berchtesgaden and the Rupertiwinkel again to Austria. 1849 became itAustrian crowning country, 1920 Land of the Federal Republic. The church ore diocese was limited 1807 to the area of the country Salzburg and the eastern Nordtirol and again organized to this extent 1818 and 1825.

See also: Erzdiözese Salzburg

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population

Population trend
date	inhabitant

31. Dec. 1900	192,763
7. March 1923	222,731
1939	267,169
1. June 1951	327,232
21. March 1961	347,292
12. May 1971	401,766
12. May1981	442,301
15. May 1991	483,880
15. May 2001	515,327

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Geografie

Salzburg possesses a surface of 7.154, 23 km ². It had 174 km a long external border, it to the all-largest with Germany, and to a small partwith Italy divides.

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