Graz, Austria - Wallfahrtskirche Mariatrost Church - postcard 1969 ILO stamp

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Wallfahrtskirche Mariatrost bei Graz, Austria
• Publisher:  A. Kellner, Wien
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  Austria ILO anniversary stamp (SG1557)
• Postmark(s):  Graz 1969 slogan postmark
• Sent to:  Elgin Street, Preson, Lancashire, England
• Notes / condition: 

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Graz (pron.: /'græts/ or /'gr??ts/; German pronunciation: ['g?a?t?s]; Slovene: Gradec, Hungarian: Grác) is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark). On 1 April 2010 it had a population of 291,890 (of which 258,605 had principal residence status).^[2]

Graz has a long tradition as a student city: its six universities have more than 44,000 students. Its ""Old Town"" is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe.

Politically and culturally, Graz was for centuries more important for Slovenes than Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and still remains influential.^[3]

In 1999, Graz was added to the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage Sites, and the site was extended in 2010 by Schloss Eggenberg. Graz was sole Cultural Capital of Europe for 2003 and got the title of a City of Culinary Delights in 2008.

The name of the city, Graz (see the Slavic settlement Grad), and some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by Alpine Slavic people^{[citation needed]}, which in time became a heavily defended fortification. In literary Slovene, gradec literally means ""small castle"", which is etymologically a hypocoristic derivative of Proto-West-South Slavic *grad?c?, itself by means of liquid metathesis descending from Common Slavic *gard?c?, by Slavic third palatalisation from Proto-Slavic *gardiku (cf. Ancient Greek toponym Ga?d???) originally denoting ""small town, settlement"". The name thus follows the common South Slavic pattern for naming settlements as grad. The German name 'Graz' was first used in 1128^[4].

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