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LINZ
, See also:capital of the See also:Austrian duchy and crownland of Upper See also:Austria, and see of a See also:bishop, 117 M
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W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1900) 58,778
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It lies on the right See also:bank of the See also:Danube and is connected by an See also:iron See also:bridge, 308 yds. See also:long, with the See also:market-See also:town of Urfahr (pop
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12,827) on the opposite bank
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Linz possesses two cathedrals, one built in 1669–1682 in See also:rococo See also:style, and another in See also:early See also:Gothic style, begun in 1862
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In the Capuchin See also: Linz is believed to stand on the site of the See also:Roman station Lentia . The name of Linz appears in documents for the first See also:time in 799 and it received municipal rights in 1324 . In 1490 it became the capital of the See also:province above the See also:Enns . It success-fully resisted the attacks of the insurgent peasants under See also:Stephen Fadinger on the 21st and 22nd of See also:July 1626, but its suburbs were laid in ashes . During the See also:siege of Vienna in 1683, the See also:castle of Linz was the See also:residence of See also:Leopold I . In 1741, during the War of the Austrian See also:Succession, Linz was taken by the Bavarians, but was recovered by the Austrians in the following See also:year . The bishopric was established in 1784 . See F . Krackowitzer, See also:Die Donaustadt Linz (Linz, 1901) . |
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