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  Graz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra.deʦ/), with a population of 240,000 (in 2005) is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German).
Johannes Kepler was a professor of mathematics at the University of Graz.
Erwin Schrödinger was briefly chancellor of the University of Graz in 1936.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graz   (1629 words)

  
 SK Sturm Graz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SK Sturm Graz were founded in 1909, as a working men's team (as opposed to their town neighbours Grazer AK, founded in 1902).
Sensationally, Sturm Graz won their Champions League Group D (against Galatasaray, Rangers and AS Monaco FC), reaching the second round for the first time.
In the season 2005/6, Sturm Graz took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, but were knocked out in the second round by VfL Wolfsburg from the German Bundesliga.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sturm_Graz   (956 words)

  
 Graz, Austria
Graz's appearance as a city offers numerous possibilities to discover its history, which has included times of splendour and expansion as much as times of difficulty and stagnation.
Under the Stirian Nobles, Graz became an important centre of commerce and trade and the Ruine Gösting is a symbol of the city's status.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Graz is a city which is very aware of its geographic proximity and historical relationship to the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
worldfacts.us /Austria-Graz.htm   (1413 words)

  
 GRAZ - LoveToKnow Article on GRAZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On the left bank of the Mur is the pilgrimage church of Maria Trost, built in 1714; on the right bank is the castle of Eggenberg, built in the 17th century.
As early as 1530 the Lutheran doctrine was preached in Graz by Seifried and Jacob von Eggenberg, and in 1540 Eggenberg founded the Paradies or Lutheran school, in which Kepler afterwards taught.
From the earlier part of the 15th century Graz was the residence of one branch of the family of Habsburg, a branch which succeeded to the imperial throne in 1619 in the person of Ferdinand II.
55.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GR/GRAZ.htm   (1071 words)

  
 The Jay-Blog: Graz
Graz's most famous export is native son Arnold Schwartzenegger.
Graz is the European Community Culture Capital of Europe for 2003.
Sunday I took the train from Graz to Wien, and then a bus to the village of Fischamend, a speck on the Fischa River about four kms.
www.internettime.com /jayblog/archives/000901.html   (385 words)

  
 Graz - Travelgaido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Graz is the capital of Styria (Steiermark) and the 2nd largest city of Austria.
Graz is the second-largest city in Austria, with a population of over 230,000.
Graz was the European City of Culture for 2003.
www.travelgaido.com /en/Graz.html   (2179 words)

  
 The Architectural Review: New Graz architecture. (Austria) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Graz is the second city of Austria, and the regional capital of Styria, the third largest of the nine Austrian Lander.(1) With a mere 250 000 inhabitants, it is five times larger than any other city in mainly mountainous Styria (Steiermark).
Graz lies on the river Mur at the point where it leaves the southern edge of the Austrian Alps to open onto a wide flood plain.
The vigorous rejection by Graz architects of the term Grazer Schule(14) had a basis that has become ever more evident: there is not one school but rather a range of tendencies spanning all the way from Domenig at his most expressionistic to the cool minimalism of Riegler Riewe.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18011842&refid=holomed_1   (3958 words)

  
 karl-franzens university graz
Graz offers the atmosphere and first class facilities of a vibrant modern city (opera, theatres, cultural festivals, lively pub-scene...) with the charm and architectural beauty of a historic town.
Graz is a clean, safe and beautiful city, which is small enough to feel at home, but large enough to provide students with plenty of entertainment during study breaks.
Graz is the capital of the province of Styria which lies in the south-east of Austria and is often referred to as the 'green heart of Austria' due to its abundance of forests.
www.umsl.edu /services/abroad/universities/graz.html   (1064 words)

  
 Graz, Austria, Pictures
The buildings of Graz include an 11th-century castle, the 13th-century church of the Teutonic Knights, the 15th-century Gothic Cathedral of Saint Aegidius, and a 16th-century parish church with an altarpiece by the Venetian artist Il Tintoretto.
Among educational institutions in the city are Graz University (1586), Graz Technical University (1811), and the University of Music and Dramatic Art (1963).
Graz is known to have existed in the 9th century AD and is thought to occupy the site of a Roman town.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Austria/Graz_city.html   (332 words)

  
 UW - Eau Claire | Center for International Education - Graz, Austria
Graz (population 250,000) is the capital of the Austrian Province of Styria (Steiermark).
Graz is also a great home base for exploring both eastern and western Europe--and the semester break from late January to early March is a wonderful opportunity to see Europe in the off (read: cheap!) season.
The Graz exchange is generally for the full academic year, although a spring semester option is available for students with advanced language skills.
www.uwec.edu /CIE/sac/program/graz.htm   (942 words)

  
 Graz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Neuberger Teilungsvertrag), Graz was the residence of the Leopoldian line of the Habsburgs in the Inner Austrian Lands.
The development of Graz into a major city started in 1840, particularly after 1844, when it was connected to the Südbahn, the railway which links Vienna to the south-east of Europe; Graz came to be known as the "retirement home" of Austria under the monarchy.
Greater Graz was born in 1938, when 10 new town districts were incorporated into the city.
www.aeiou.at /aeiou.encyclop.g/g679948.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en   (1921 words)

  
 Graz, Austria - Uhrturm - Graz Tourism Information - Austria Travel City Guide to Graz
Graz is the capital of Styria, a county in the southeast corner of Austria.
In the 19th century Graz grew to a large city and many representative buildings like the Karl-Franzens-University, the city hall and the opera house were erected.
Today Graz is the second largest city in Austria and home to about 230.000 people.
www.aboutaustria.org /capitals/graz.htm   (314 words)

  
 Mayor of Graz City on His Holiness, Kalachakra and Tibet issue
RFA: In 1998 as Lord Mayor of Graz, you have extended an invitation to the Dalai Lama to conduct a Kalachakra event in Graz.
In the city of Graz itself, the whole municipal body which is made up of 4 parties and the entire municipal council support this project as everyone is convinced that Graz should be the host city while the religious ritual shall remain a matter of the buddhist community itself.
Graz is the Economic centre of the state of Steiermark.
www.tibet.com /NewsRoom/kalachakra1.htm   (1532 words)

  
 2003:Homepage
Yet Graz remains a capital of culture, though certainly not in exactly the same way as before.
It would be hard to find a single resident of Graz who did not participate in the events of the cultural capital at least once during the year, who did not partake of culture wholesale or at least briefly test the cultural waters.
Graz 2003 was a vast urban entertainment in which we explored ways to communicate and live together better, ways to venture the new without jeopardising the old, and ways to open ourselves to strangeness and unfamiliarity instead of continuing to reject it.
www.graz03.at /servlet/sls/Tornado/web/2003/design_e/5E6541BEABC509A6C1256B7200382247   (502 words)

  
 City of Graz - Historic Centre - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Graz is a particularly fine example of a central European urban complex whichexperienced many centuries of Habsburg rule.
Criterion (ii): The historic centre of the city of Graz reflects artistic and architectural movements originating from the Germanic region, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, for which it served as a crossroads for centuries.
Criterion (iv): The urban complex forming the historic centre of the city of Graz is an exceptional example of a harmonious integration of architectural styles from successive periods.
whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=931   (231 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Graz (Austria Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Probably founded in the 12th cent., Graz is built around the Schlossberg, a mountain peak, on which are the ruins of a 15th-century fortress and the famous Uhrturm [clock tower].
The Johanneum museum (founded 1811) is one of the finest provincial museums in Austria.
The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) taught at the state university in Graz (founded in the 16th cent.).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Graz.html   (254 words)

  
 Cluster Tail Workshop, 26 - 28 March 2003, IWF Graz, Austria
From the airport: Follow the signs to Graz (first left, then right), cross the railroad and turn left at the traffic lights ("Triester Straße").
The Research Center Graz of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is the first building on the right side.
You can find a map on the official Graz pages (in German) and a link to an interactive map on the IWF pages.
cluster-tailworkshop-graz.oeaw.ac.at   (713 words)

  
 Foreword - Automobil-Forum Graz 2004
The Graz Automobile Forum has become popular over the past five years not only as a place where people get talking, but because it fosters a positive perspective - all the right antidotes in view of the current concerns of the branch.
So come to Graz, the ideal opportunity for exploring strategies for the present and future.
As an international hub for ideas in automobile management, Graz is the ideal venue for the Automobile Forum, particularly in view of its proximity to Eastern Europe.
www.automobilforum-graz.de /mic/afGraz2004/englisch/index.php   (203 words)

  
 Graz 2003: p.p.c.
Through "project pop culture" Graz found a new centre and took a decisive step in the development of popular culture.
In March 2003 an interdisciplinary course on the topic of "Pop Cultures" was launched as a co-operation project between the University of Graz and the Graz 2003 project UNIversum with inputs from Pop-Cult, p.p.c.
The increasing relevance of pop as a subject of daily life and a topic for scientific research fired an educational project at the Karl-Franzens-Universität during the summer term of 2003.
www.graz03.at /servlet/sls/Tornado/web/2003/content_e/96BC5B836368C30CC1256B840049720F   (442 words)

  
 Graz hotels. Save up to 60% off rates on all hotels in Graz
The Drei Raben Hotel Graz is a cosy hotel where guests can enjoy warm hospitality and a relaxed atmosphere.
Erzherzog Johann Hotel Graz is located in the heart of the Old Town.
Situated centrally in front of Graz main train station, Ibis Hotel is just few minutes from the old town.
www.hotelclub.net /hotel.reservations/Graz.htm   (176 words)

  
 LanguageServer - University of Graz
The LanguageServer is a project initiated and supported by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Graz and is organised and implemented by the Department of Linguistics.
Reduplication Database - The Graz Database of Reduplication is designed to provide access to a representative data on reduplication from the languages of the world, according to well established typological criteria.
QuanTa - Quantitative Text Analysis The Graz Project QuanTa focuses on the application of quantitative methods in the field of the humanities.
languageserver.uni-graz.at   (721 words)

  
 Graz --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In the 9th century there was probably a fortress on the Schlossberg, a rocky cone (1,552 feet [473 m]) that dominates the city.
Although the nations of Europe had been edging toward war for several years, it was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, that plunged the Continent into actual conflict.
Francis Ferdinand was born on Dec. 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037818?tocId=9037818   (565 words)

  
 EUA convention of European Higher Education Institutions
This key event is organised by EUA and hosted jointly by the three universities in Graz: the Karl-Franzens-University, the Graz University of Technology and the University of Art and Music.
The aims of the EUA are to formulate a coherent message from the higher education institutions and to strengthen the role of the institutions in the creation of the European Higher Education Area.
The outcomes of the Graz Convention will be presented by EUA as the contribution from the higher education institutions to the next Conference of European Education Ministers in Berlin in September 2003.
eua.uni-graz.at /intro.html   (261 words)

  
 Graz didn't do it......he was just in the area.
Graz didn't do it......he was just in the area.
He is now able to stand a little, but gets around mostly by "scooting" on the floor, hence his name.
# posted by Graz @ 4:29 PM My oldest in the cap and gown, and #2 son being Joe Cool with his hands in his pockets.
www.whyohwhydidntitakethebluepill.blogspot.com   (230 words)

  
 Mobile Landscape Graz in Real Time
Mobile Landscape Graz in Real Time harnesses the potential of mobile phones as an affordable, ready-made and ubiquitous medium that allows the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex, pulsating entity.
Because it is possible to simultaneously 'ping' the cell phones of thousands of users - thereby establishing their precise location in space at a given moment in time - these devices can be used as a highly dynamic tracking tool that describes how the city is used and transformed by its citizens.
The customer can also stop it at any time, otherwise her/his trace will be automatically stopped 24 hours after activation.The record of this movement will be collected, processed and finally displayed as set of dynamic traces showing their paths through the city on the same map.
senseable.mit.edu /projects/graz/graz.htm   (709 words)

  
 Graz city guide, Austria - Time Out Travel
With its fervent patronage of the arts, careful conservation of an outstanding cultural heritage and its dynamic, modern outlook, Graz was a fine choice for the title of ‘European Capital of Culture’ in 2003.
Bastion of the Leopoldine Habsburgs until they decamped to Vienna in 1619, Graz is now Austria’s second largest city and capital of the lush, semi-Alpine province of Styria.
Graz's top restaurants, bars and cafes independently reviewed.
www.timeout.com /travel/graz   (190 words)

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