Bleiburg
Sign in to saveBleiburg () is a small town in the south Austrian state of Carinthia (Koroška), south-east of Klagenfurt, in the district of Völkermarkt, some four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the border with Slovenia.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bleiburg
- Settlement.native_name
- Pliberk
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- Municipality
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- Pliberk-znamenje.jpg
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- Main square with plague column
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- Wappen at bleiburg (gaertner).png
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- 80x110px
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- Austria Carinthia#Austria
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- 270
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- Location within Austria
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- Location within Völkermarkt district
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- Country
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- Austria
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- State
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- Carinthia
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- District
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- Völkermarkt
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Bleiburg () is a small town in the south Austrian state of Carinthia (Koroška), south-east of Klagenfurt, in the district of Völkermarkt, some four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the border with Slovenia.
The municipality consists of the twelve Katastralgemeinden Aich (Dob), Bleiburg, Grablach (Grablje), Kömmel (Komelj), Moos (Blato), Oberloibach (Libuče), Rinkenberg (Vogrče), Sankt Margarethen (Šmarjeta), Schattenberg (Senčni kraj), Unterloibach (Libuče), Weißenstein (Belšak) and Woroujach (Borovje). According to a 2001 census, 30.4% of the population are Carinthian Slovenes (in 1971, they were 52.8%).