The city of Graz, capital of the state of Steiermark, in southeastern Austria

 "While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed." -- Maria Theresa, the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, ruling from 1740 until her death in 1780. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma.

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(in Austria's second city) The city of Graz, capital of the state of Steiermark, in southeastern Austria, is found on the Mur River between the Styrian Alps and a wide, fertile basin, the Grazerfeld, about 95 miles (155 km) south-southwest of Vienna. The Schlossberg (“Castle Hill”) is a rocky cone some 1,550 feet (470 meters) high that dominates the city. The name Graz is derived from gradec, a Slavic word meaning “small fortress.” First mentioned about 1128–29, Graz received town rights about 1240 and became the center of Steiermark (Styria) during the Middle Ages and the residence of the Leopoldine Habsburgs after 1379. Its fortifications, built in the 15th–16th century, successfully withstood numerous sieges by the Hungarians and the Turks. The Schlossberg fortifications were blown up by the French in 1809, and the site was laid out with parks after 1839. The 16th-century clock tower and the belfry survive as prominent landmarks.