Lienz

Lienz is a medieval metropolis in the Austrian nation of Tyrol. It is the executive centre of the Lienz district, which covers all of East Tyrol. The municipality additionally consists of the cadastral subdivision of Patriasdorf. The vicinity of Lienz had been settled because the Bronze Age approximately 2000 BC. Celtic people lived here from about 300 BC on, specifically as miners, who came underneath control of the Roman Empire in 15 BC.

The region became integrated into the province of Noricum and Emperor Claudius had a municipium called Aguntum erected close to Lienz inside the latest municipality of Dolsach. Aguntum have become the see of an Early Christian bishop inside the 5th century however decayed in the course of the Slavic agreement of the Eastern Alps and the following fights with the Bavarii under King Tassilo I about 600. Part of the Slavic principality of Carantania, the place handed under Bavarian and finally Frankish suzerainty at some stage in the 8th century. Lienz is placed on the confluence of the rivers Isel and Drava inside the Eastern Alps, among the Hohe Tauern mountain variety within the north and the Gailtal Alps inside the south.