Duchy of Styria | |||||||||||
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1180–1918 | |||||||||||
![]() Map of Austria-Hungary in 1850–1910, showing Styria in red | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
• Collapse of German Austria | 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.