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).
Some of those horses, now known as mustangs, escaped and formed the first herds used by Native Americans. The name mustang comes from the Spanish word 'mesteno' which means stray or wild. They were joined by other breeds as European descendants; settlers, trappers, miners, cattlemen and farmers began to venture west.