Maribor

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Maribor (UK: MARR-ib-or, US: MAR-, Slovene: [mib] ; also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. It is the seat of the Urban Municipality of Maribor and the Drava statistical region. Maribor is also the economic, administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia.Maribor was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254. Like most Slovene ethnic territory, Maribor was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 Maribor became part of independent Slovenia.Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimares, was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2012.== Name ==Maribor was attested in historical sources as Marpurch c.1145 (and later as Marchburch, Marburc, and Marchpurch), and is a compound of Middle High German march 'march (borderland)' + burc 'fortress'. In modern times, the town's German name was Marburg an der Drau (pronounced [mabk an de da]; literally, 'Marburg on the Drava').The Slovene name Maribor is an artificial Slovenized creation, coined by Stanko Vraz in 1836.