Maribor

:This article is about the city in Slovenia. For other uses of the term Marburg, see Marburg (disambiguation).

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Maribor (-Slovenian, German: Marburg an der Drau) is a city in the Maribor ob?ina of Slovenia. With a population of 110,668 as of 2002, it is the second-largest city in the country. Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje mountain, the Drave valley, the Drave plain and the Kozjak and Slovenske gorice hill ranges. It is the largest city and the center of the Slovenian region of Styria. The city's coat of arms features a white pigeon flying downwards above a white castle with two towers and a portcullis on a red shield. Maribor also has the second biggest Slovene international airport, the Maribor Airport.

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