Duchy of Styria
Duchy of Styria | |||||||||||
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| 1180–1918 | |||||||||||
Map of the Duchy of Styria from 1850-1910 | |||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire; Kronland of Cisleithanian Austria | ||||||||||
| Capital | Graz | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
| Government | Duchy | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
| 970 | |||||||||||
| 1180 | |||||||||||
| 1192 | |||||||||||
| 1254 | |||||||||||
| 1260 | |||||||||||
| 1276/78 | |||||||||||
| 31 October 1918 | |||||||||||
| 10 September 1919 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Austria Slovenia | ||||||||||
* Transferred by inheritance on the extinction of the ducal line. † Transferred by conquest. | |||||||||||
The Duchy of Styria (German: Herzogtum Steiermark; Slovene: Vojvodina Štajerska; Latin: Ducatus Styriae) was a duchy located in modern-day southern Austria and northern Slovenia. It was a part of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary until its dissolution in 1918.