What is the name of Austria's highest mountain?
Geography of Austria Central Alps run from Tyrol to approximately the Styria-Lower Austria border and include areas that are permanently glaciated in the Ötztal Alps on the Tyrolean–Italian border and the High Tauern in East Tyrol and Carinthia. The Northern Calcareous Alps, which run from Vorarlberg through Tyrol into Salzburg along the German border and through Upper Austria and Lower Austria toward Vienna, and the Southern Calcareous Alps, on the Carinthia-Slovenia border, are predominantly limestone and dolomite. At 3,797 m, Großglockner is the highest mountain in Austria. As a general rule, the farther east the Northern and Central Alps run, the lower they
Name of Austria into Austria. The name "" is a latinization of German "Österreich" (that is, the spelling of the name "Austria" approximates, for the benefit of Latin speakers, the sound of the German name "Österreich"). This has led to much confusion as German "Ost" is "east", but Latin "auster" is "south". The name is first recorded as "Austrie marchionibus" (Margrave of Austria) on a deed issued by Conrad III to the Klosterneuburg Monastery in 1147. On the Privilegium Minus of 1156, the name of the country is given as "marchiam Austriae" (March of Austria) and as "Austriae ducatum" (Duchy of Austria). In