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place name information: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Johann_am_Pressen Sankt Johann am pressing is a town in Carinthia with 107 inhabitants as of October 30, 2011. The small town is very secluded on a hilltop 1250 meters bove sea level. The site is dominated by agriculture, especially cattle farming. There has been a steady population decline over the long term due to the isolated location. The Romanesque church of St. John was built in 1130 by the Salzburg ministry officials and clerics. Several Roman inscription stones in the church wall and show that it is already here in the late antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Circle http://my.raex.com/~obsidian/Kreiss.html The Holy Roman Empire was divided into an administrative grouping of Imperial Circles primarily for the purpose of organizing a common defensive structure and of collecting the imperial taxes, but also as a means of organization within the Imperial Diet and the Imperial Chamber Court. There were three estates, the secular noble Houses, the ecclesiastic seats, and free cities with Imperial charters. Membership in the circles was not entirely fixed, and could shift from decade to decade as circumstances changed. Even so, the membership was stable to a large degree, and seats within noble estates tended to remain even though the territories involved might change dynasties or be subdivided. Six Imperial Circles were introduced at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. In 1512, three more circles were added, and from 1512 until the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, there were ten Imperial Circles. The Crown of Bohemia, the Swiss Confederacy and Italy remained unencircled, as did various minor territories which held imperial immediacy. The 1512 Diet also initiated the official use of the name Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in its Final Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Circle The Austrian Circle roughly corresponds to present-day Austria, except for Salzburg, Slovenia and the South Tyrol region of Northern Italy. The Austrian Circle contained the following territories: Hapsburg lands: Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, Gorizia, Istria, Styria, Tarasp, Trieste, Tyrol, and Further Austria [Altdorf, Bregenz, Briesgau, Burgau, Hohenburg, Konstanz, Ortenau, Stockach, Sundgau, Tettnang, Winnweiler] Prince Bishoprics: Brixen, Chur, Trent Teutonic Bailiwicks [areas held by Teutonic Knights]: An der Etsch, Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Carinthia A territory of the Austrian Circle, The Duchy of Carinthia was located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchies. Carinthia remained a part of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.