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Hallstatt

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Hallstatt is a small village in the district of Gmunden, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. [1]

58 relations: Ancient Rome, Antler, Austria, Austrian People's Party, Bad Aussee, Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee, Blacksmith, Brine, Bronze Age Europe, Brooch, Celts, Cemetery, China Minmetals, Cremation, Dürrnberg, Ebensee, Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany, Europe, Gmunden District, Gosau, Graz, Guangdong, Hallein Salt Mine, Hallstatt culture, Hallstatt Museum, Hallstätter See, Hoher Dachstein, Huizhou, Human, Independent politician, Iron Age Europe, Johann Georg Ramsauer, Kurgan, La Tène culture, List of World Heritage Sites in Austria, Market town, Middle Ages, Neolithic, Obertraun, Ossuary, Prehistory, Proto-Celtic language, Ramsau am Dachstein, Salt, Salt mining, Salzburg, Salzkammergut, Shoe-last celt, Sister city, Social Democratic Party of Austria, ..., Tourism, Trade, Trail, Tumulus, Upper Austria, Urnfield culture, Village, Villanovan culture. Expand index (8 more) »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Antler

Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the deer family.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Austrian People's Party

The Austrian People's Party (Österreichische Volkspartei; ÖVP) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Austria.

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Bad Aussee

Bad Aussee is a town in the Austrian state of Styria, located at the confluence of the three sources of the Traun River in the Ausseerland region.

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Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee

Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee is a market town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria in the district of Gmunden.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).

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Brine

Brine is a high-concentration solution of salt (usually sodium chloride) in water.

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Bronze Age Europe

The European Bronze Age is characterized by bronze artifacts and the use of bronze implements.

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Brooch

A brooch is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.

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Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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China Minmetals

China Minmetals Corporation is a Chinese metals and mineral trading company headquartered in Beijing.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Dürrnberg

Dürrnberg, also named Bad Dürrnberg, is an Austrian village part of the municipality of Hallein, in Hallein District (Tennengau), Salzburg State.

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Ebensee

Ebensee is a market town in the Traunviertel region of the Austrian state of Upper Austria, located within the Salzkammergut Mountains at the southern end of the Traunsee.

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Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany

Elizabeth of Carinthia (also known as Elizabeth of Tyrol; – 28 October 1312), was a Duchess of Austria from 1282 and Queen of Germany from 1298 until 1308, by marriage to the Habsburg king Albert I.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Gmunden District

Bezirk Gmunden is a district of the state of Upper Austria in Austria.

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Gosau

Gosau is a municipality in the district of Gmunden in Upper Austria, Austria.

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Graz

Graz is the capital of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Hallein Salt Mine

The Hallein Salt Mine, also known as Salzbergwerk Dürrnberg, is an underground salt mine located in the Dürrnberg plateau above Hallein, Austria.

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Hallstatt culture

The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European culture of Early Iron Age Europe from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.

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Hallstatt Museum

The Hallstatt Museum (Museum Hallstatt) is a museum in Hallstatt, Upper Austria, that has an unrivalled collection of discoveries from the local salt mines and from the cemeteries of Iron Age date near to the mines, which have made Hallstatt the type site for the important Hallstatt culture.

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Hallstätter See

Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake in the Salzkammergut, Austria, located at.

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Hoher Dachstein

Hoher Dachstein is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps.

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Huizhou

Huìzhōu is a city in southeast Guangdong Province, China.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Iron Age Europe

In Europe, the Iron Age may be defined as including the last stages of the prehistoric period and the first of the proto-historic periods.

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Johann Georg Ramsauer

Johann Georg Ramsauer (7 March 1795 in Hallstatt – 14 December 1874 in Linz) was an Austrian mine operator and the director of the excavations at the Hallstatt cemetery from 1846–1863.

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Kurgan

In English, the archaeological term kurgan is a loanword from East Slavic languages (and, indirectly, from Turkic languages), equivalent to the archaic English term barrow, also known by the Latin loanword tumulus and terms such as burial mound.

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La Tène culture

The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where thousands of objects had been deposited in the lake, as was discovered after the water level dropped in 1857.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Austria

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Obertraun

Obertraun, Upper Austria is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria.

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Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Proto-Celtic language

The Proto-Celtic language, also called Common Celtic, is the reconstructed ancestor language of all the known Celtic languages.

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Ramsau am Dachstein

Ramsau am Dachstein is a municipality in the district of Liezen, state of Styria, Austria.

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Salt

Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.

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Salt mining

A salt mine is a mine from which halite, commonly known as rock salt, is extracted from evaporite formations.

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Salzburg

Salzburg, literally "salt fortress", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Salzburg state.

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Salzkammergut

The Salzkammergut is a resort area located in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mountains.

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Shoe-last celt

A shoe-last celt (German: Schuhleistenkeil) is a long thin polished stone tool for felling trees and woodworking, characteristic of the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Hinkelstein cultures, also called Danubian I in the older literature.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Social Democratic Party of Austria

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a social-democratic political party in Austria and alongside the People's Party one of the two traditional major parties.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

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Trail

A trail is usually a path, track or unpaved lane or road.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Upper Austria

Upper Austria (Oberösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: Obaöstarreich; Horní Rakousy) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria.

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Urnfield culture

The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 BC – 750 BC) was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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Villanovan culture

The Villanovan culture was the earliest Iron Age culture of central and northern Italy, abruptly following the Bronze Age Terramare culture and giving way in the 7th century BC to an increasingly orientalizing culture influenced by Greek traders, which was followed without a severe break by the Etruscan civilization.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt

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