In Austria, a district (Bezirk) is an administrative division normally encompassing several municipalities, roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany. The administrative office of a district, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft, is headed by a Bezirkshauptmann.
New! The Horses of the Plains. Most of the evolutionary development of the horse (54 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago) actually took place in North America, where they developed the very successful strategy of grazing (eating grass) rather than browsing (eating softer succulent leaves).
Where does a horse live? Later finds gave a more comprehensive impression of how the animal must have looked, and the species was renamed Eohippus, meaning dawn horse.. The domestication of horses is thought to have happened in Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and parts of Eurasia between 6,500 and 7,000 years ago.