Linz

:This article is about the city of Linz in Austria. There is another much smaller Linz in Germany: see Linz, Germany.

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Linz is a city and Statutarstadt in northeast Austria, on the Danube river. It is the capital of the state Upper Austria (Oberösterreich). Linz is located at . Area ca. 96 km?, population ca. 180,000 (census 2001).

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The city was founded by the Romans, who called it Lentia.

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The city was most of the times only a provincial and local government city of the Holy Roman Empire and an important waypoint between several trade routes, spanning the river Danube from the west to the east and Czechoslovakia and Poland from north to the Balkans and Italy to the south.

Statutarstadt: A Statutarstadt (a city with its own statute) is a city in Austria with its own municipal law or city statute. In Austria, a city can request this status if it has more than 20,000 inhabitants. After the state government and the Federal Government agree to grant the status, it is granted as long a...

Austria: The Republic of Austria (German: Republik ?sterreich) is a landlocked country in central Europe. It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The capital is the city of Vienn...

Danube: : For other uses of "Danube", see Danube (disambiguation)....

Linz related Images and Photos (experimental)

Center of Linz

View of Linz from Pöstlingberg

Interior of Roccoco Abbey Church Linz Austria