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 | | It consists of three districts, Bregenz, Bludenz and Feldkirch, which are under the administrative authority of the Statthalter (or prefect) at Innsbruck, but possess a governor and a diet of their own (twenty-one members), and send four members to the imperial parliament. |
| | Vorarl-berg is composed of the hilly region of the Bregenzerwald, and, to its south, of the mountain valley of Montafon or of the upper 111, through which an easy pass, the Zeinisjoch (6076 ft.), leads to the Tirolese valley of Paznaun, and so to Landeck. |
| | Near Bludenz the Kloster glen parts from the 111 valley, through the latter runs the Arlberg railway (1884)beneath the pass of that name (5912 ft.)to Landeck and Innsbruck. |
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