Dravograd

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Občina Dravograd
Location of Dravograd in Slovenia
Area: 105.0 km²
Population 8,863
 - males 4,400
 - females 4,463
Mayor: Marijana Cigala
Average age: 38.3 years
Residential areas: 26.16 m²/person
 - households: 2,923
 - families: 2,482
Working active: 4,201
 - unemployed: 443
Average monthly salary (August 2003):
 - gross: 223,113 SIT
 - net: 143,182 SIT
College/university students: 347
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, census of 2002.

Dravograd (in German Unterdrauburg) is a small town and a municipality with the same name in northern Slovenia, located at the crossing of the Slovenian-Austrian border by the Drava river, at the confluence with the Meža and the Mislinja. It is part of the Carinthia (Koroška) informal province.

Dravograd
Dravograd

The municipality consists of 24 settlements which are contained in 5 local communities: Dravograd, Črneče, Libeliče, Šentjanž pri Dravogradu, and Trbonje. In 2002, the town of Dravograd itself had about 3377 inhabitants.


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[edit] History

From 976 on the area of Dravograd was part of the Duchy of Carinthia. The German name Unterdrauburg denoted the place, where the Drava River left Carinthia and flew into the neighbouring Duchy of Styria. It corresponded with Oberdrauburg up the river at Carinthia's western border with the County of Tyrol. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Dravograd by the 1919 Treaty of Saint Germain became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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Dravograd has a station at the Drautalbahn railway line from Maribor to Innichen (San Candido) in Italy, opened in 1863. The highway No.3 leading from Maribor to the Austrian border runs through the town, where the highway Nr. 10-10 to Celje branches off.

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Coordinates: 46°35′N, 15°01′E