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unusual facts about Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt



Adria Locke Langley

Adria Locke Langley (1899- August 14, 1983) was an American author best known for her first novel, published in 1945, the best seller A Lion Is in the Streets based on life of Huey Long.

Adriatic Veneti

Many archeological excavations are still under way in the Veneto today at sites such as Este, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona and Altinum.

Adriatica

The name originates from the Etruscan city of Atria or (Adria) that also gave its name at a much earlier period to the Adriatic Sea.

Alpen

Alpen, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Charles Paul Ernest, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Initially, he had to share power in the territories of Steinfurt and Alpen with his great-uncle Statius Philip (1668-1749).

Counts of Andechs

The Counts of Dießen-Andechs (~1100 to 1180) obtained territories in northern Dalmatia on the Adriatic seacoast, where they became Margraves of Istria and ultimately Dukes of a short-lived Imperial State named Merania from 1180 to 1248.

DB Class VT 11.5

This "Alpen-See-Express" ran scheduled from Hamburg and Dortmund to southern German and Austrian destinations, including Berchtesgaden, Lindau, Innsbruck and Salzburg.

Druzhba pipeline

The Druzhba-Adria Pipeline Integration Project is a proposal to extend the pipeline to pass through Hungary and Croatia to reach the Adriatic Sea at the deep-water port of Omišalj.

Emmet O'Brien

Like the previous year O'Brien got a late call to race for the Independent Danish Poulsen Motorsport BMW Team in the FIA European Touring Car Cup in Adria in Italy.

Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education

The Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education (IFF) is one of four Faculties at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Farra d'Isonzo

For several years there has been a renowned musical academy here, promoting an annual chamber music competition for young musicians of the Alpe-Adria, and various concerts are held in the splendid chamber of the parochial oratory.

Giuseppe Agujari

Giuseppe Agujari (Adria, 1843 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 16, 1885) was an Italian-Argentine painter, known mainly for his watercolor canvases.

Grignano Polesine

The first evidences of the originary built-up area of Grignano are documented by some papers of 938, related to a donation by the marquess Almerico and his wife Franca, in which they left all the possessions in the territory of Adria, the latters contained the village of Gragnano (the actual Grignano), together with other small agglomerates like Arquà Polesine, Borsea and Crespino, still present in the Polesine.

Gumprecht II of Neuenahr

Frederick (after 1425 – 22 June 1468), killed in Wachtendonk on the day before the Battle of Straelen, married on 29 September 1461 to Eva of Linnep (before 1451 – 1483)

When his father died in 1430, Gumprecht inherited Alpen, Rösberg, Garsdorf and the office of Hereditary Bailiff of Cologne.

Hypo Alpe Adria in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank a.d. Banja Luka and Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. Mostar (HAA) are member banks of Hypo Alpe Adria, one of the leading international financial groups on the territory of Alps-Adriatic region, of which parent bank was founded in 1896 in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Hypo Alpe Adria has been present in the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 2001, when it took over Auro Bank Mostar, which thereafter was operating under the name of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. Mostar.

A year after, Hypo Alpe Adria took over Kristal Bank Banja Luka, which has been operating under the name of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank a.d. Banja Luka since 2003.

Hypo Group Alpe Adria

The Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA) is an Austrian banking group with numerous cross-border activities in the Alps-Adriatic region.

Immune to Murder

Other members of the cast (in credits order) include David Schurmann (O.V. Bragan), Robert Bockstael (David Leeson), Carlo Rota (Spiros Papps), Susannah Hoffmann (Sally Leeson), Giancarlo Esposito (Ambassador Theodore Kelefy), Seymour Cassel (James Arthur Ferris), Manon von Gerkan (Adria Kelefy), George Plimpton (Cook), Richard Waugh (Capt. Jasper Colvin), Matthew Edison (Nate the Trooper) and Steve Cumyn (D.A. Herman Jasper).

Interdict

In 1909, the town of Adria in Italy was placed under interdict for 15 days after a local campaign against the move of a bishop.

Jerzy Bajan

Between 22-31 July 1932 he took part in the 3rd International Air Meeting in Zurich (or "Alpen rally"), flying a prototype fighter PZL P.11, and he came second (the first place of the Yugoslavian pilot was debated, because of using additions for fuel).

Kaprun disaster

The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek incorporated the disaster in her 2003 play In den Alpen (In the Alps).

Liburnians

In light of this strategy, he established a few Syracusan colonies on the coasts of the Adriatic Sea: Adria at the mouth of Po river and Ancona at the western Adriatic coast, Issa on the outermost island of the central Adriatic archipelago (island of Vis) and others.

Lower Rhine Railway

North of Alpen it had a grade-separated crossing over the former Haltern–Venlo railway, a section of the "Paris–Hamburg railway" of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME).

Maja Haderlap

After her graduation she worked as assistant dramaturg, as a program editor and a lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Literary Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt.

Marie Hoyau

At the European Youth Olympic Festival in Romania (19 February 2013) she placed 6th, at the two Alpen Cup events in Einsiedeln and Ziri she achieved mid-table positions.

Najat Kaanache

Ferran Adria stated that "Najat Kaanache represents the soul of Morocco through the language of the kitchen. Her passion for creativity and innovation are an exemplary reference for the whole country." At a Basque Culinary Center International Advisory Council summit on September 23rd, 2013 held in Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture at Blue Hill, Adria said "Chef Najat Kaanache is four times better than I was when I became the chef at El Bulli".

Natural regions of Germany

Nagelfluh-Vorberge wie der Pfänder werden, abweichend vom Handbuch, von Dongus nicht den Alpen, sondern dem Alpenvorland zugerechnet.

Sant Adrià de Besòs railway station

Sant Adrià de Besòs and Estació de Sant Adrià are the respective names of a Rodalies de Catalunya station and a Trambesòs stop together forming an interchange complex in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalonia, Spain, to the north of Barcelona.

Stubai

Stubai Alps, (German: Stubaier Alpen), a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps of Europe

Wilfried Elmenreich

Wilfried Elmenreich (born 1973 in Fürstenfeld, Austria) is an Austrian researcher and professor of Smart Grids at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.


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