The Bezirk Lienz ( Italian : Distretto di Lienz ) is an administrative district ( Bezirk ) in Tyrol , Austria . It is the only district in East Tyrol . The district borders the Pinzgau ( Salzburg ) in the north, the districts Spittal an der Drau and Hermagor (both Carinthia ) in the east, Veneto ( Italy ) in the south, and South Tyrol ( Italy ) in the west.
4-499: Nikolsdorf is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol . This Tyrol location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lienz (district) The area of the district is 2,016.41 square kilometres (778.54 sq mi) with a population of 48,833 o January 1, 2019, and population a density of 25 per square kilometre (65/sq mi). The administrative center of
8-785: The Defereggen Alps , the Lienz Dolomits and the Karnisch Alps . The shortest road connection to North Tyrol is the Felbertauern road (P1) and the Felbertauern tunnel (about 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi)). Lienz is located at a road junction between the federal Felbertauern road (B108), a road to the Puster Valley (B100) and South Tyrol, and a road to the Drautal valley and Carinthia . The district
12-666: The district is Lienz . In 1918, it was occupied by the Italian Army. In 1919, Trentino and South Tyrol were split from what is now the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Treaty of Saint-Germain (these three entities made up the old Austro-Hungarian county of Tyrol ). Since this time, East Tyrol has been separated from North Tyrol by about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) of border between the federal state of Salzburg and South Tyrol. Accordingly, it forms an inner-Austrian exclave of
16-738: The federal state of Tyrol. It was also the only part of modern Tyrol not occupied by France after the Second World War , instead forming part of the British zone . The district comprises parts of the Puster Valley , the valleys of Iseltal , Defereggen , Virgental , Kalser Tal , and the Tyrolean Gailtal . Mountain ranges in the district include parts of the Hohe Tauern with Venediger Group and Glockner Group ,
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